But a man who followed close behind him obliged him to stop, {248} saying: “Signor Don Jaymé, you have need of assistance; accept, therefore, of mine: it is you for whom they are searching; accept my services without delay, if you do not wish to be assassinated by a troop of rascally servants, who will shortly rush upon you.”
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 1/3 by Mateo Alemán

The Northern soldiers wrecked the potash works and broke away tons of rock, so as to make it dangerous to return.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 09 : as to buried treasure by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

In front of it and on either side, the trees had been cut away, but a tangle of riotous shrubbery lined the path to the door.
— from The Perils of Pauline by Charles Goddard

"He's become just as great a bore as that old Rameses," said he.
— from A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"One is as bad as the other," Rupert said in a broken voice.
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Still another was the so-called dog-cart, borne along by a team of responsible silver-trapped bays, and having on its second seat a footman graciously permitted, in this instance, to face the horses whose lustrous flanks his own hands had doubtless groomed into their present brilliance.
— from An Ambitious Woman: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett