Whereto Pampinea, no otherwise than as if in like manner she had banished all her own cares, answered blithely, "Dioneo, thou sayst well; it behoveth us live merrily, nor hath any other occasion caused us flee from yonder miseries.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“You see, massa,” he said, apologetically, “you hoed a-rollin’ ober an’ ober in sitch a way, dat it rader confused me, an’ I forgits to look whar we was, an’ den I was so awrful cut up for fear you’s gone dead, dat I t’ink ob nuffin else—an’ now, it’s too late!”
— from The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Here is one that has been in constant use for fifty years.
— from The Romance of Modern Mechanism With Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate Scientific Instruments by Archibald Williams

One at Niagara, she says, was chained up for four years.
— from Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 by Charles Mair

The harvest of the autumn before had failed; the war and the corn laws had brought the price of corn up to a famine rate; and much of what came into the market was unsound, and consequently unfit for food, yet hungry creatures bought it eagerly, and tried to cheat disease by mixing the damp, sweet, clammy flour with rice or potato meal.
— from Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

His two sons-in-law, therefore, took his {152} place, and when the older died, in 1854, Rabbi Naphtali Zebi Judah Berlin (1817-1893) entered on his useful career, unbroken for forty years, as the dean of the greatest seat of learning in the Diaspora.
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

You agree that the simple faith of young Germans and young Turks can be highly dangerous, but do you counsel unquestioned faith for young Americans?
— from The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

The old party founded by Jefferson, which, beginning with Jefferson's administration, had ruled the country uninterruptedly for forty years, was returned to power, and on an issue which would have delighted Jefferson's heart.
— from American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson

His devotion to the Duchesse d'Angoulême won him the nickname of Chevalier du Brassard , and Royal favours which continued unabated for fifteen years.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de