His deep researches into causes and effects, his unwearied application to the study of natural philosophy, his profound and unlimited knowledge of the properties and virtues of every gem which enriches the deep, of every herb which the earth produces, at length procured him the distinction which He had sought so long, so earnestly.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Under King Otho the revenues of the State were five millions of dollars—raised from a tax of one-tenth of all the agricultural products of the land (which tenth the farmer had to bring to the royal granaries on pack-mules any distance not exceeding six leagues) and from extravagant taxes on trade and commerce.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Unverhofft kommt oft —The unlooked-for often happens.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

V. But these men who say this are all wrong, for there are plenty of witnesses of the unsurpassable kindness of the man to every body; both his own country which honoured him with brazen statues, and his friends who were so numerous that they could not be contained in whole cities; and all his acquaintances who were bound to him by nothing but the charms of his doctrine, none of whom ever deserted him, except Metrodorus, the son of Stratoniceus, who went over to Carneades, probably because he was not able to bear with equanimity the unapproachable excellence of Epicurus.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

And it was a very uncommon kind of torch, for once or twice when there were angry words between some dinner-carriers who had jostled each other, he shed a few drops of water on them from it, and their good humour was restored directly.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

The preponderance of argument tends, however, to show that it was an importation as to its origin, for not a few events outlined in the Japanese mythology cast shadows of reminiscence upon Korea or the Asian mainland.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The Benedictine Editors are inclined to believe, that they were the sons of some unknown king of the Franks, who reigned on the banks of the Neckar; but the arguments of M. de Foncemagne (Mem. de l'Academie, tom. viii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Cuff, the unquestioned king of the school, ruled over his subjects, and bullied them, with splendid superiority.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I do not know when my feelings have been more engaged among strangers, than by the unaffected kindness of the people of Gabel,—a kindness on which we had no right to calculate, however much we might be justified in looking for civility in return for our money.
— from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

Oengus, Angus or Ungust, King of the Picts, son of Fergus, 392 n., 393 . Oeric, Oisc, son of Hengist, 95 .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

In many of the smaller towns, our visits to the restaurant would sometimes result in considerable damage to its keepers, for the crowd would swarm in after us, knocking over the table, stools, and crockery as they went, and collect in a [pg 173] circle around us to watch the “foreigners” eat, and to add their opium and tobacco smoke to the suffocating atmosphere.
— from Across Asia on a Bicycle The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking by Thomas Gaskell Allen

Tippu-Tib was, according to rumour in the Soudan, the uncrowned king of the region between Stanley Falls and Tanganyika Lake, for thousands of Arabs had flocked to his standard, and his well-armed caravans were dreaded everywhere throughout the Great Upper Congo Forest.
— from The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return by William Le Queux

Combining then, these two aspects of the Universal Mind, its utter impersonality and its perfect intelligence, we find precisely the sort of natural force we are in want of, something which will undertake whatever we put into its hands without asking questions or bargaining for terms, and which, having undertaken our business, will bring to bear on it an intelligence to which the united knowledge of the whole human race is as nothing, and a power equal to this intelligence.
— from The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

You've picked up plenty of useful knowledge of the air conditions out here?"
— from The Gland Stealers by Bertram Gayton

The Scotch had been credited with uncanny knowledge of the future.
— from Poor Man's Rock by Bertrand W. Sinclair

103 The thick underbrush kept off the cold winds.
— from The Tree-Dwellers by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp