The latter commander had been caught there and kept as a prisoner, as was also the despot Aristonicus, a Methymnaean, 357 who sailed into the harbour of Chios with five piratical vessels, fitted with one and a half banks of oars, not knowing that the harbour was in the hands of Alexander’s adherents, but being misled by those who kept the bars of the harbour, because forsooth the fleet of Pharnabazus was moored in it.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

At the end of the passage fourth door down said Procurio tritely of course he may be out one never knows what they are up to.
— from The Young Visiters or, Mr. Salteena's Plan by Daisy Ashford

'It is but our own Nell Kennedy,' I said.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Good John, thou surely dost not call it a wicked thing to fight beneath the banner of our noble King when he goes forth upon his wars?"
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurses’ knees.
— from The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner

It represented on her part a very special share in the sympathetic interest extended to all fellow-Missionaries, and on their side a reverential love and esteem, which in many cases could not have been deeper, had the tie been one of natural kinship.
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

A third agrees with the first in being unable to conceive that A can produce B, but finds the sequence D, B, still more natural than C, B, or of nearer kin to the subject matter, and prefers his D theory to the C theory.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

Why is he mixed up in the proceedings against my book?” “Oh! one never knows, one never knows exactly!”
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

A third agrees with the first [pg 262] in being unable to conceive that A can produce B, but finds the sequence D B still more natural than C B, or of nearer kin to the subject-matter, and prefers his D theory to the C theory.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

Then his heart failed him, when he knew that he no longer desired her as she did him, and he said within himself: ‘Would that she had been of our nighest kindred!
— from The Roots of the Mountains Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbours, Their Foemen, and Their Fellows in Arms by William Morris