"Fair lords, though we be so few against that mighty power of enemies, let us not be dismayed; for strength nor victor…"

"I have tried to make this book as representatively English as I might; with less thought of robust and resounding 'pa…"

"I pray to God the Scottish King do deceive me, but I am afeared he will not. For my own part, I have made of the Fren…"

"When the French king saw the Englishmen, his blood changed, and (he) said to his marshalls, "Make the Genoese go on b…"

"Si la bonne foi était bannie du reste du monde, il fallait qu’on la trouvât dans la bouche des rois."

"He who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly."

"Et dum transivimus per villam de Peronne muratam, quam propè relinquimus à sinistris nostris, comperimus equites Gall…"

"At first we were confused. The East thought that we were West while the West considered us to be the East. Some of us…"

"Whoever is a Serb and of Serb birth, And of Serb blood and heritage, And comes not to the Battle of Kosovo, May he ne…"

"Bitter was the tsar’s curse to hear; aye! and a word of woe: "Who comes not to the battle with me at Kósovo, Let noth…"