The chieftain of Dariawad had his estate confiscated: but as the Rana never punished from passion or pardoned from weakness, none dared to plead his cause, and he remained proscribed from court during two years, when he ventured a petition to the queen-mother through the Bhandarins, [11] for the reversion of the decree, accompanied with a note for two lakhs of rupees, [12] and a liberal donation to the fair mediators.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The peaceful man then came to us, and was offering an apology, when the madcap descended again with a naked weapon in his hand, at least that was Robertson's impression.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

this was a better answer than any supernatural voice could have given her; a more helpful sign than any phantom face or hand; a surer confirmation of her hope than subtle argument or sacred promise: for it brought back the memory of the living, loving man so vividly, so tenderly, that Christie felt as if the barrier was down, and welcomed a new sense of David's nearness with the softest tears that had flowed since she closed the serene eyes whose last look had been for her.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

And as a compensation for her debt, she has a large navy; America is without a debt, and without a navy; yet for the twentieth part of the English national debt, could have a navy as large again.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

“Doubtless, and we are not now inquiring into his creed, but his actions; in the name of the prefect of police, I ask you what you know of him.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

3. “Antidotum” probably means a universal remedy, capable of curing all natural diseases, as well as neutralizing the effects of poison.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

The "good and brave Scots" came in on drays and wagons, apparently none the worse for the fierce encounter, saving merely the loss of a leg, or an arm or two.
— from British Regiments at the Front, The Story of Their Battle Honours by Reginald Hodder

Such an act, however, of injustice, if it concluded an importunate dispute, might be numbered among the transient evils of a despotic administration, which are neither felt nor remembered by posterity.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Edward Gibbon

The humour of a wary Knight, who sleeps all day, and wakes all night, for security.—He calls up his Household at midnight.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

It was bitter cold by day, and worse at night.
— from Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. by Caroline Hadley

This was simply a manoeuvre to gain time, as during the truce they could carry off the corn by day as well as night.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

It is also used in the Mahābhārata somewhat vaguely to express “ancient legendary lore,” implying didactic as well as narrative matter, and pointing to an old collection of epic stories.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

As the cabin contained but one room, with but one door and window, and no loft or outbuildings, the premises were easily searched.
— from The Haunted Homestead: A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

I sat down, and wrote a note to my father, in the most respectful and eloquent terms I could devise, judging that it was better to write than to speak to him on the subject.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

On June 15 it was formally opened with a club dinner, at which a number of the gentlemen connected with the World's Fair were present as guests.
— from American Big-Game Hunting: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Boone and Crockett Club

But the charge of favouring atheism can only have been brought against a man who regarded the existence of God as "the most obvious truth that reason discovers," and who appears never to have questioned the reality of supernatural intervention, from time to time, in the world's history, because it happened to be the roughest stone that could be found in the controversial wallet.
— from Locke by Thomas Fowler