From the day old Hannah brought him in her arms across the threshold of the Hermitage, the General ever referred to him as “my son;” and had the boy actually been his own offspring he could not have treated him with more kindly and enduring affection.
— from The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory by Stanley F. Horn

Mr. Glanville eagerly ran to her assistance, while Sir Charles and his daughter as eagerly interrogated Mr. Tinsel, who stood motionless with surprise, concerning the cause of her disorder.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

Herr Schmidt, with a torrent of guttural exclamations, rushed to her assistance.
— from The Young O'Briens: Being an Account of Their Sojourn in London by Margaret Westrup

In reply he is told that ‘Nellie Vernon, twenty-two, accomplished, rather tall, dark, and considered handsome; an English Gem, nineteen, pretty, lady-like, and the daughter of an independent gentleman; Emilie R., twenty, handsome, and of good family; and Eveline de Courcy, eighteen, fair and pretty, and will have a nice fortune—wish to correspond and receive the carte-de-visite of the favoured one.’
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

When these two planets are in opposition, then that part of the earth which could not receive any light from the Sunne beames, is most enlightened by the Moone, being then in her full; and as she doth most illuminate the earth when the Sunne beames cannot, so the gratefull earth returnes to her as great, nay greater light when shee most wants it; so that alwaies that visible part of the Moone which receives nothing from the Sunne, is enlightened by the earth, as is proved by Galilæus , with many more arguments, in that Treatise which he calls Systema mundi .
— from The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins

We who know the prophecies, may be more assured of the reality of a divine interposition; and, indeed, otherwise how could a single nation stand out against the enmity of the whole world for any length of time, and much more for near 4000 years together; the great empires round them have all in their turn fallen to ruin, while they have continued the same from the beginning, and are likely to continue the same to the end: and this, in the natural course of human affairs, was so highly improbable, if not altogether impossible, that as nothing but a Divine Prescience could have foreseen it, so nothing but a Divine Power could have accomplished it."
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume I by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

If they could see him now!” cried George Elgood rapturously to himself; and Margot caught the words, and questioned curiously— “Who?
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The Ottoman Government even refused to have any dealings with the representative of the largest Austrian munition maker unless he admitted a Turk as a partner.
— from Secrets of the Bosphorus by Henry Morgenthau