"I am afraid you were going out," she said, evading the question.
— from Captain Desmond, V.C. by Maud Diver

Mr. Vavasour is about to go on some secret embassy to the East, at the instance of friends, who are in authority at Venice.
— from The MS. in a Red Box by John A. (John Arthur) Hamilton

Whereas Congress at first overshadowed neither President nor federal judiciary, it now on occasion rules both with easy mastery and with a high hand; and whereas each State once guarded its sovereign prerogatives with jealous pride, and able men not a few preferred political advancement under the governments of the great commonwealths to office under the new federal Constitution, seats in state legislatures are now no longer coveted except as possible approaches to seats in Congress; and even governors of States seek election to the national Senate as a promotion, a reward for the humbler services they have rendered their local governments.
— from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

But what Englishwoman of her caste ever permitted herself to be visible after nightfall except in an evening gown of some sort, even though a shabby sort?
— from The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

Such was the host on which England relied for safety in 1588, if by chance the galleons of Spain should elude the vigilance of Drake and should land Parma's hordes upon our shores.
— from Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government by F. J. C. (Fossey John Cobb) Hearnshaw

Must not then monasticism be a fostering garden of superstition, since even those who claim to reject Rome resort to the same subterfuges as Rome does to fill the void that must necessarily exist in the aching hearts of all the deluded followers of monasticism?
— from Nunnery life in the Church of England; or, Seventeen years with Father Ignatius by Mary Agnes, Sister, O.S.B.