"Continuez, Gustave Adolphe," replied the old negro, with a majestic air.
— from Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat

[4] Jules Favre, Jules Simon, Jules Ferry, Gambetta, Crémieux, Emmanuel Arago, Glais-Bizoin, Pelletan, Garnier-Pages, Picard, uniting, proclaimed themselves the Government, and read their own names to the crowd, which answered by adding those of men like Delescluze, Ledru-Rollin, Blanqui.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

Even in François I didn't get a round the other night.
— from A Strange World: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

From these figures we get a rough total of nearly 3,000,000.
— from The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts by Margaret Sanger

rn naturalists have made in the science of Conchology, Voluta Scapha still remains a Volute among the most approved writers of the present day, while most of those species considered by Linnæus as appertaining to the same genus are removed to other newly-constituted genera.
— from The Naturalist's Repository, Volume 1 (of 5) or Monthly Miscellany of Exotic Natural History: etc. etc. by E. (Edward) Donovan

It was not without grief and reluctance that old Noble consented to be so immediately deprived of his gallant boy; and the mother was almost inconsolable at the thought of so early and sad a separation: but that same evening Martin took his departure for Bristol, that he might secure such baggage as he had brought with him from Italy, and equip himself for the camp.
— from The Broken Font: A Story of the Civil War, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Moyle Sherer

The high-handed outrages, the authorized thieving, the forcing of Confederate notes upon the people, making it treason to refuse them in exchange for horses, cattle, clothes, and provisions, the confiscation of negroes, the grotesque appearance of the Rebel soldiers,— " Some in rags, some in tags, But none in velvet gowns,"— as reads the old nursery rhyme, dissipated the illusion in which many men had indulged.
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

Ten armed Hottentots were sent by the magistrates of the district to which they belonged, to guard and relieve them of night-watches, and with these came the news that ten of their friend Opperman’s cattle, and seven belonging to their neighbour the squatter, had been carried off by Bushmen.
— from The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne