Abulfaragius specifically says that Mangku Kaan died by an arrow ; though it is true that other authors say he died of disease, and Haiton that he was drowned; all which shows how excusable were Polo's errors as to events occurring 50 to 100 years before his time.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

La gratitud de Perfecta era tan viva, que al escribir a su hermano desde Orbajosa, donde resolvió residir hasta que creciera su hija, le decía entre otras ternezas: "Has sido 25 más que hermano para mí, y para mi hija más que su propio padre. ¿
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Indeed, it can be shown that stock-watering reached a still higher degree of development in the case of the Erie road.
— from The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses by William Larrabee

As she had done one day twenty-four years ago, now she turned and dropped heavily into a chair, her bony hands pressed to her shallow bosom.
— from Black Jack by Max Brand

Well, lightning can take off a man's arm, and strike him daft or dead; but what about the little men up yonder?
— from The Old Man of the Mountain by Herbert Strang

It would be altogether good to have him with her again—to be able to devote herself to him entirely as she had dreamed of doing for so many years.
— from Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver

She would prove it to him, as she had dreamed of doing—but not just yet.
— from The Torch Bearer by Reina Melcher Marquis

He begs she will pardon the method he has taken to let her know the situation of his Mind, as, being a Stranger, he despaired of doing it any other way, or even of seeing her more.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

And so he died, O Dionysos! died!
— from Blooms of the Berry by Madison Julius Cawein