"Ego Nennius Sancti Elbodugi discipulus aliquis excerpta scribere curavi, quae hebitudo gentis Britanniae deiecerat, q…"

"Regni tui figura tentorium est; duo vermes duo dracones sunt; vermis rufus draco tuus est; et stagnum figura hujus mu…"

"Et Hengistus omni familiae suae jussit et unusquisque artavum suum sub pede in medio ficonis sui poneret: "Et quando …"

"Tunc Arthur pugnabat contra illos in illis diebus cum regibus Brittonum, sed ipse dux erat bellorum."

"Duodecimum fuit bellum in monte Badonis, in quo corruerunt in uno die nongenti sexaginta viri de uno impetu Arthur; e…"

"Like many West Indians of my generation, I have been reading C. L. R. James’s Black Jacobins over and over for many y…"

"天作孽，猶可違；自作孽，不可活。"

"It would be better to be without the Shu-King than to believe every word of it."

"Well, at the time that I am telling you about, in those days the lord of Vlachia and of all Hellas, of Arta and Yanni…"

"I will a tale to thee rehearse, a tale of import mighty; And if attention you do lend, I hope the tale will please yo…"