At the office all the morning, where Mr. Wren first tells us of the order from the King, came last night to the Duke of York, for signifying his pleasure to the Sollicitor-General for drawing up a Commission for suspending of my Lord Anglesey, and putting in Sir Thomas.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

" "Trust, sir—trust yet a while to the loyalty of the people," said Captain Lincoln, "nor teach them that they can ever be on other terms with British soldiers than those of brotherhood, as when they fought side by side through the French war.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

One day he rode out into the forest as usual, and when he had ridden a long way he came out at a piece of cleared land near to Hadeland.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

" The return voyage was as prosperous as the former one, and though it was night when the ship entered the harbour, the captain lost no time in landing with his passenger, whom he conducted to the palace, where he begged an audience with the king.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

And this was her farewell message to Teigue:—‘From that (the cup), let not thine hand part; but have it for a token: when it shall escape from thee, then in a short time after shalt thou die; and where thou shalt meet thy death is in the glen that is on Boyne’s side: there the earth shall grow into a great hill, and the name that it shall bear will be croidhe eisse ; there too (when thou shalt first have been wounded by a roving wild hart, after which Allmarachs will slay thee)
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

And so I sent for Griffith, and got him to search their house to see what the meaning of it might be, but can learn nothing to-night.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Accordingly we saw above that, as a matter of fact, in the case of logic, in which the immediate knowledge in each individual case lies nearer to hand than deduced scientific knowledge, we always conduct our thought according to our immediate knowledge of the laws of thought, and leave logic unused.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Captain Nemo led me to the Nautilus's stern and invited me into a cabin located next to the sailors' quarters.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

sikbit n contiguous, located next to.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

All cheap, luckily, not the best quality."
— from Fairfax and His Pride: A Novel by Marie Van Vorst

I am very sorry that I was not able to be at the Circle last night to see what you had to show.
— from The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

The view now becomes beautiful and highly picturesque, the flat cultivated land near the shores forming a striking contrast to the barren hills on the outside of the forts; the mountains in the distance appear to encircle the extensive plain; and although, like the others, they are barren, yet they make a fine back-ground to the picture.
— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune

The parliament of Paris, apprehending that some innovation is to be attempted, which may take from them the opportunity of deciding on it after it shall be made known, came last night to the resolution, of which I have the honor to enclose you a manuscript copy.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

She cautioned Lady Nithisdale to secrecy, and even to flight; for the King had been extremely irritated by the petition already sent in by Lady Nithisdale.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

Our course led, not through serpentine canals and past Doges’ palaces, gaudy with the lavish adornments of tricky Byzantine architecture; nor could we expect to see “lions” as historical as those which ornament the façade of Saint Mark’s.
— from She and I, Volume 1 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dressed, Fresh as a bridegroom.”
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris

" It is something in him that speaks when, as he sees a night-hawk circling low near the ground, he says: "A storm to-morrow."
— from The Spirit of the Border: A Romance of the Early Settlers in the Ohio Valley by Zane Grey