Now let us go, with ready wills and free, To do as we have sworn, whate'er befall, Before pale hunger's gnawing misery Hath brought us to the last extreme of all.
— from Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

A ride of fifteen miles through a finely wooded country brought us to the Lake Eleanor dam-site and the municipal camp, where general preparations are being made and runoff records are being taken.
— from A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock

Yonder path by the water's edge will bring us to the lower end of the town.'
— from A Strange World: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Dr Gollipeck, however, being used to these little eccentricities of his toilet, pinned the waistcoat together, and then, sitting down, spread his red bandanna handkerchief over his knees, and stared steadily at Vandeloup, who had put on a loose velvet smoking coat, and, with a cigarette in his mouth, was leaning against the mantelpiece.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

A few minutes brings us to the lodge entrance.
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston

It may be urged that the luxurious expenditure of the rich provides as much employment as the more necessary expenditure of the poor.
— from Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

This kingdom preserved its independence to the time of Psammeticus; at which period, being united to the Lower Egypt, it lost its name of Ethiopia, which thenceforth was bestowed upon the nations of Nubia and upon the different tribes of blacks, including Thebes, their metropolis.
— from The Ruins; Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature by C.-F. (Constantin-François) Volney

He was a member of its senate, and busied himself with its examinations, being up till the last excessively fond of work, and finding that of a judge who sits for five or six hours daily insufficient to satisfy his appetite.
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

“If them kids has a pull with the Indians they’ll get us through,” Mills called, and then the Buddies understood that the leaders expected to share any protection that the presence of the “Don’s little pets” as he called them, might be to the gang.
— from Airplane Boys in the Black Woods by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine