France is now about to try real democratic and republican government, and it will be a dangerous experiment in a country like this.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

Low bowed many a helmeted head at this gracious proffer, when the Queen, glancing her eyes through the assembled leaders, missed both Douglas and Roland Graeme, and inquired for them in a whisper to Catherine Seyton.
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

On every side, except the south, it is surrounded by deep and rugged gorges, and it is supplied with fresh water from a spring above the village.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

"Beyond a doubt it is, Dave, and right glad am I to see him, and there too is Wilton, the fighting Quaker, and Carson also.
— from The Lords of the Wild: A Story of the Old New York Border by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

“Why, this is our old camp,” replied Duke, “and right glad am I to see it; for I do not believe I could ride a hundred yards further to save my life.”
— from Our Fellows; Or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons by Harry Castlemon

Many of the guns were dismounted, and rugged gaps appeared in their walls; but it was not for three hours later that the Egyptian gunners were driven from their pieces.
— from Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

"How could you have gone out if you had not been delirious?" asked Razoumikhin, getting angry in his turn.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various