The whole country then was reduced to obedience under King Harald.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

It is a lingering note, and comes in triplets, on the one unchanging key: hoo-o-o, hoo-o-o, hoo-o-o; then a silence of fifteen seconds, then the triplet again; and so on, all night.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

I know that those visions that the saved shall have in heaven of this love, will far transcend our utmost knowledge here, even as far as the light of the sun at noon, goes beyond the light of a blinking candle at midnight; and hence it is, that when the days of those visions are come, the knowledge that we now have, shall be swallowed up.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

And so, after scores of days it was done: there would be a time of understanding; Kurho, himself, would cross the river to go in person among Otah's people!
— from The Beginning by Henry Hasse

Not to play Bridge, because only two of us know how, and if we get against the other two, they upset us so much we invariably lose, and if we cut them they upset us still more, and I get to bed with my brain very like a piano in a damp climate.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers

Self-educated, yet among the most learned of men, his vast treasury of useful knowledge, his great retentive and reflective powers, combined with his social nature, made him the most interesting of companions in private life."
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

In the Odyssey, Ulysses kisses his son Telemachus (doubtless on the face)
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 1 of 3 I. Prolegomena II. Achæis; or, the Ethnology of the Greek Races by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

“I don’t care, anyway we’ll see him; and I’m going to tell him that the three of us know he’s innocent.”
— from Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

He gave and sustained all life of every sort everywhere, and does, though only a third of us know His later, nearer, newer Name—Jesus.
— from Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon