A great many of Captain Gee ’s Men were ashore, when Robert ’s bore down, and so the Ship consequently surpriz’d into his Hands, tho’ had they been all on Board, it was not likely the Case would have been otherwise, the Sailors, most of them, voluntarily joyning the Pyrates, and encouraging the same Disposition in the Soldiers, (who were going Passengers with them to Cape-Corso-Castle ) whose Ears being constantly tickled with the Feats and Gallantry of those Fellows, made them fancy, that to go , was only being bound on a Voyage of Knight Errantry (to relieve the Distress’d, and gather up Fame) and so they likewise offer’d themselves; but here the Pyrates were at a Stand, they entertain’d so contemptible a Notion of Landmen, that they put ’em off with Refusals for some time, till at length, being weary’d with Solicitations, and pittying a Parcel of stout Fellows, which they said, were going to starve upon a little Canky and Plantane, they accepted of them, and allow’d them ¼ Share, as it was then term’d out of Charity.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

“This image of the Virgin of Kaysaysay enjoys the fame of being very miraculous, so that the Indians gather from great distances to hear mass in her sanctuary every Saturday.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

NORTH-EASTERN VIEW OF KUBBET ES-SAKHARAH, AND OF KUBBET ES-SILSILEH.
— from Jerusalem Explored, Volume 2—Plates Being a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with Numerous Illustrations Consisting of Views, Ground Plans and Sections by Ermete Pierotti

Immense quantities of it, possessing either a grayish or reddish brown colour, are found in the vicinity of Knoxville, East Tennessee.
— from American Journal of Science, Vol. 1. by Various

But, you see, these kingly fortunes have the burdens, the vexations of kingly existences.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

Likewise at the great suit of William a Norman then Bishop of London , he granted a Charter of libertie to that Citie, for enioying the vse of K. Edwards Lawes: a memoriall of which benefite, the Citizens fixed vpon the Bishops 97 graue, being in the middest of the great West Ile of S. Pauls .
— from The Lives of the III. Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by Hayward, John, Sir

It is even said that in the village of Kabutiloa every native possesses the faculty of transformation.
— from Human Animals by Frank Hamel

The visit of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra to Berlin in February, 1909, disposed finally of the idea, which had prevailed in Germany as well as abroad for two or three years, that England was pursuing a policy aiming to bring about the "isolation" of Germany in world-politics.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw