The door opened upon the yard, and here she was left to find him as she could.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Then young Maudie went wrong and took her sister Alice with her; the two boys emigrated, and young Jim went to India with the army, and Ethel, the youngest, married a good-for-nothing little waiter who died of ulcers the year little Lennie was born.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Failing of which, we do pronounce to you, that we hold ye as robbers and traitors, and will wager our bodies against ye in battle, siege, or otherwise, and do our utmost to your annoyance and destruction.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Hot and dry, helps difficulty of urine, the yellow jaundice, provokes the menses, helps digestion, opens stoppings of the liver and spleen.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The elder one, having no mother, who is called the heavenly Aphrodite—she is the daughter of Uranus; the younger, who is the daughter of Zeus and Dione—her we call common; and the Love who is her fellow-worker is rightly named common, as the other love is called heavenly.
— from Symposium by Plato

Brails Small Ropes reeved through Blocks, which are seized on either Side of the Mizon Course, a little Distance off upon the Yards, so that they come down those Sails, and are fastened at the Skirt of them to the Cringles.
— from A Naval Expositor Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms of Art Belonging to the Parts, Qualities and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea by Thomas Riley Blanckley

It is not just what I could have wished for you, ma petite , but I have no choice, as it happens; and if ever you are dull or unhappy there, you will not blame me, or think I was unkind in sending you, will you, my child?
— from My Little Lady by E. Frances (Eleanor Frances) Poynter

'I said what I deemed of use to yourself,' replied Ambrose.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

THORNLEY was a little scandalised like her mother, at first, not by Rachel's desire to marry again—for that she should do so, as a rich young widow of twenty-five, "left" by a husband just forty years her senior, was generally anticipated as a matter of course—but by the too early announcement of those wishes and intentions which conventional [231] decorum forbade a woman to dream of until "the year" was up.
— from A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 3 by Ada Cambridge

Nothing so good I am sure as seeing the Falcon , and making friends with Lord Innishouran, who can be of a great deal of use to you.
— from The Wizard's Son, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Each sail was hoisted taut up, so as to yield as little as possible to the bellying influence of the breeze, while their corners were drawn out upon the yards to their full extent.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 4, October 1837 by Various

The entrance of the barn was a large door, opening upon the yard
— from Gothic Architecture by Edouard Corroyer

If you would only let us go, so that we might try to set her free, we give you our solemn promise that we will deliver ourselves up to you again, if we survive, so that you can do what you will."
— from The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes; or, On the Trail of the Iroquois by St. George Rathborne