When I say Norman, he was of course thoroughly Sicilian, as his family had [ Pg 352] been for centuries; but they are one of the few families of undoubted Norman descent, and therefore, when all the Two Sicilies are raving over their English protectors, feel that they have a sort of claim of kinship.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

After the overstrain of the day had come a fit of utter nervous depression.
— from Atlantida by Pierre Benoît

The Scottish army of forty thousand was led by the successor and avenger of Wallace, Robert Bruce, who achieved the marvelous object of driving the invaders from the country, fighting on until nowhere did an English foot crush the heather of Scotland.
— from Dick Merriwell Abroad; Or, The Ban of the Terrible Ten by Burt L. Standish

We had some difficulty in crossing, and were compelled to pass the night in the small village of Rizan, near the ferry, as one of the baggage-mules refused to swim the stream, and was not forced over until near dawn of the following morning.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

Two years later five others (under Nicolás de Agreda) were also sent to Mexico from Spain.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

“Yes,” added Jimmy, “and don’t forget there’s four of us, Ned, darlint.”
— from Boy Scouts on the Open Plains; Or, The Round-Up Not Ordered by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

Under such circumstances, the examinations require to be conducted with the greatest possible care, and to be repeated at favourable opportunities, until no doubt as to the correctness of their results can any longer exist.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby