Presently some wags began to chalk up 'Fotheringay for ever!'
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

Nothing remains, then, but to acknowledge the inability to discover it, to advocate poulticing, or some other expectant palliative measure, and to bring the case up for further examination at no distant date.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks

These old books of nature and nature's mind ought to be chained up, free for every man to read in every parish.
— from Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies

Her reward came next day, when she sighted (the words run like Marryat's) "enemy squadron coming up fast from eastward, proceeding inshore of us."
— from Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling

17 Jan Team from Company B, 3d Reconnaissance Battalion ambushed near Hill 881N. 19 Jan While searching ambush site, patrol from I/3/26 comes under fire from estimated 25 NVA troops and withdraws under cover of supporting arms.
— from The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore

"I was very ill," he once said, "some months ago, and my doctor gave me particular orders not to expose myself to it; so I come up [from Fulham] every day to Crockford's, or some other place to dinner, and I make it a rule on no account to go home again till about four or five o'clock in the morning."
— from Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries by John Timbs

[Pg 159] ter, the recruits would have received the advantage of a few months training before they were brought into actual service, and the General, that of a certain uninterrupted force for each campaign.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall