Samuel Garth was of a good family in Yorkshire, and from some school in his own county became a student at Peter House, in Cambridge, where he resided till he became Doctor of Physic on July the 7th, 1691.
— from Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2 by Samuel Johnson

He was then sent after by one of the Constables, who brought word he would not hear it till four o’clock in the afternoon; the Lawyer for the Plantiff sent a Constable after Stokes, and put him into confinement till the case would be heard, which took place about five o’clock; his father was bound for him to appear at Sessions.
— from The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc. by C. F. G. Clark

Then she made Clara promise that she would return as soon as possible, having in Clara's presence overcome all that feeling of dislike which she had expressed to Conway Dalrymple.
— from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope

Oh, we shall have some first-rate skating, and hockey, perhaps, and sleighing also, such as people have in Canada.
— from Ernest Bracebridge: School Days by William Henry Giles Kingston

By a singular and perhaps humorously intended coincidence, three German painters, George Hufnagel, Sebastian Scharnagel, and John Nothnagel, have all employed the same homely emblem—a nail; the German name of which, Nagel , enters into the composition of all three surnames.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434 Volume 17, New Series, April 24, 1852 by Various