This runs into it, and at once makes that vast river bitter, for the reason that the water of the brook becomes bitter by flowing through the kind of soil and the veins in which there are sandarach mines.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Those who are more interested in supporting orthodoxy than in being over nice concerning the kind of support they give it, often refer to these people as evidence in favour of the true faith.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Gelder, the King of Saxony, who met his end in the same war, was set by Hother upon the corpses of his oarsmen, and then laid on a pyre built of vessels, and magnificently honoured in his funeral by Hother, who not only put his ashes in a noble barrow, treating them as the remains of a king, but also graced them with most reverent obsequies.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The position of George, however, being more secure than that of Orleans, the policy of the latter tended to yield to that of the former, and this tendency was increased by the active ill-will of the King of Spain.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

I am assured by Gaika and by Mrs. Barber that the Kafirs of South Africa never blush; but this may only mean that no change of colour is distinguishable.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

As the servant knew how to talk Portuguese, he came aboard our ship, and told us that, although the sons of the king of Tarenate were at enmity with the king of Tadore, yet they were always at the service of the king of Spagnia.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Now the apostle says, "By the law is the knowledge of sin.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

But I shall explain why this kind of structure should not be used by the Roman people within the city, not omitting the reasons and the grounds for them.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

And on King Arthur’s side there came the King of Ireland and the King of Scotland, the noble prince Sir Galahaut, Sir Gawain and his brothers Sir Agravain and Sir Gaheris, Sir Ewaine, Sir Tor, Sir Perceval, and Sir Lamoracke, Sir Lancelot also and his kindred, Sir Lionel, Sir Ector, Sir Bors and Sir Bedivere, likewise Sir Key and the most part of the Table Round.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Perhaps Philip now began to entertain some doubts as to the result, and to call to memory the prediction of the King of Sicily, which, in his rage and desire for vengeance, he had, for a time, forgotten.
— from Cressy and Poictiers: The Story of the Black Prince's Page by John G. (John George) Edgar

“Brown, his Majesty’s subject of the Kingdom of Scotland, was by authority from that State sent in a pinnace of the King to the subjects of the United Provinces, who were then fishing for herrings upon the coasts of Scotland, to demand a certain acknowledgment claimed by his Majesty, as due unto him in the right of that crown;” that “while delivering his errand he was arrested and carried prisoner to Holland by the Dutch commander, who pretended he had warrant and commission from the Lords the States so to do; that his Majesty (having represented this indignity by his ambassador there to the Lords the States, the latter disavowed the act of the captain)
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

She somewhat smil'd, then spake: "If mortals err In their opinion, when the key of sense Unlocks not, surely wonder's weapon keen Ought not to pierce thee; since thou find'st, the wings Of reason to pursue the senses' flight Are short.
— from Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise by Dante Alighieri

We use all this kind of scrap to make the stock shoes.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals by Charles Conrad Sleffel

With Sohm's view as to the essential identity in form of the two kinds of sponsalia compare the various works of Biener, Bierling, Sehling, Scheurl, and Dieckhoff mentioned in Bibliographical Note VII.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

It has always been the practise of the King of Sardinia to abandon his transalpine dominions; but on this occasion the Court of Turin appears to have been surprized by the strange eccentric motions of a Democracy, which always acts from the passion of the moment; and their inferior troops have retreated, with some loss and disgrace, into the passes of the Alps.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

He will have under him more golden towns and nations than the King of Spain, the Sultan of the Turks, and no matter what Emperor!"
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World by Jules Verne

It was the last, perhaps the only, chance for the kings of Syria and of Israel.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

It's the kind of stuff that makes the tired business man get bright in the eyes and forget how near the sixteenth of January is.
— from Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

Isaiah's heart grew royal; his style wore the majesty of a king, before he sang the King of sorrow with His infinite pathos, and the King of righteousness with His infinite glory.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by William Alexander