It was fully a week afterward when a thoroughly humbled and repentant Virginia, after making sure that Anne was out, knocked one afternoon at Grace's door.
— from Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase

The Rupun, who seemed much disappointed, tied the ropes round my wrists firmly again, and, though he appeared rather vexed at my not having availed myself of the chance of flight he had given me, he treated me with ever-increasing respect and deference.
— from In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Far more interest attaches to Marsilio’s correspondence, which embraces the twenty years [26] between 1474 and 1494—the only product of his literary activity that has a real value at the present time.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

Moreover, to respond to the desire of the inhabitants of Belgium, the franc was accepted in the public treasuries, but at too high a rate, viz. at 47 1 ⁄ 2 cents, whereas it was worth only 46.8 cents.
— from The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

No doubt all this has a retrospective value and meaning.
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein