The historian adds, “How greatly it is to be regretted that the name of this hero is not known to the writer, that it might be recorded with this specimen of Cherokee bravery and patriotism, firmness and presence of mind in the hour of danger.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

That is, in short, not to multiply cases, in whatsoever he has no authority, there he is no king, and may be resisted: for wheresoever the authority ceases, the king ceases too, and becomes like other men who have no authority.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The hunchback is now king and the king is a Brahman.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

If my mother fancied that SHE was to be that woman, I think it was a perfectly justifiable notion on her part; for the Earl (my godfather) was always most attentive to her: I never knew how deeply this notion of advancing my interests in the world had taken possession of mamma’s mind, until his Lordship’s marriage in the year ‘57 with Miss Goldmore, the Indian nabob’s rich daughter.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Tell me, brother squire," asked the duchess (whose title, however, is not known), "this master of yours, is he not one of whom there is a history extant in print, called 'The Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha,' who has for the lady of his heart a certain Dulcinea del Toboso?"
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and I fear Thou play'dst most foully for't; yet it was said It should not stand in thy posterity, But that myself should be the root and father Of many kings.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and, I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for't: yet it was said It should not stand in thy posterity, But that myself should be the root and father Of many kings.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

“Your feeling, Isabella, is warm; but until this hour I never knew it betray you into intemperance.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

The only serious obstacle to this view, I think, is the fact that he is not known to have been represented as a boy or youth till Macready produced King Lear .
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and I fear
— from The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Whether he attempted to make use of the Suards’ timid hospitality is not known.
— from The Friends of Voltaire by Evelyn Beatrice Hall

His next thought, seeing that he is not killed, is: Can he kill the stranger?
— from Adventure by Jack London

“Oh,” said she, “he would be worthy to be loved even by you, Catharine; for he is the noblest and handsomest cavalier in the whole world; and though he is no king, yet he is a king’s brother-in-law, and will some day be a king’s uncle.”
— from Henry VIII and His Court: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Until I spoke to her, I never knew that our rule, before it was mitigated, required of us that we should possess nothing; [ 3 ] nor was I going to found a monastery without revenue, [ 4 ] for my intention was that we should be without anxiety about all that was necessary for us, and I did not think of the many anxieties which the possession of property brings in its train.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint

"Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all!"
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Every one will hope that he is not killed."
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

he said to himself, “I never knew how lovely it was amid conventional surroundings!”
— from Tharon of Lost Valley by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe

(of which the history is not known) is a similar hybrid.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin