While I stood in the porch forlorn and undetermined, venting ejaculations of curses against the thief who had robbed me, and the old priest who recommended him to my friendship, a young gentleman richly dressed, attended by a valet de chambre and two servants in livery, arrived at the inn.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

We shall present to the Assembly this charter free from all Utopian views, equally regardful of the rights of the nation and of those of the capital.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

Cavour stood firm and unshaken, Victor Emmanuel, trusting to his minister’s star of destiny, stood by him, the people stormed, protested, besought, but all without avail.
— from Builders of United Italy by Rupert Sargent Holland

Those thickened with rice, barley or corn starch form a useful variety, especially with the addition of milk.
— from The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by L. Emmett (Luther Emmett) Holt

“On the first of September, 1553, I was committed unto the Fleet from Richmond, to have the liberty of the prison, and within five days after I had paid for my liberty five pounds sterling to the warden for fees, who immediately upon the payment thereof complained unto Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, and so I was committed to close prison one quarter of a year in the lower chamber of the Fleet and used very extremely.
— from Non-Criminal Prisons English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands by Arthur Griffiths