From every old friend—I have several still left to us—from [382] every old comrade of the Light and 4th Division, have I received every expression of their approbation, their happiness in my having realised their often-expressed anticipations.
— from A British Rifle Man The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, During the Peninsular War and the Campaign of Waterloo by George Simmons

Having overshot the cataract, the noise of which we had a long time distinctly heard, I resisted every entreaty that could be made to me to enter the house to refresh myself.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 3 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

[75] Even when the prisoners were freed, Jefferson wrote again to Washington: I shall give immediate orders for having in readiness every engine which the Enemy have contrived for the destruction of our unhappy citizens captivated by them.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

Notwithstanding the pleasantry which Booth endeavoured to preserve, he in reality envied every labourer whom he saw pass by him in his way.
— from Amelia — Volume 2 by Henry Fielding

Mystification sat on all faces, when the individual who had before attacked Mr. Latham's misstatements, took up the defence of the puzzled colonists by volunteering to answer the question if he would explain how "impossible roots enter equations."
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

In turning to Francis Bacon’s hypothesis I read (Ed. E. and S. ii.
— from Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) Allbutt

Hitherto, I regret, every effort at amendment led to rather prolonged and very bitter controversy, and these great inherent difficulties were themselves accentuated and [268] aggravated.
— from Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various

How S. Augustine and his band of missionaries first encountered the King with his choristers carrying the Cross and chanting Psalms to those Gregorians that Gregory (birch in hand!) had taught him in Rome, etc., etc.
— from Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books by Horatia K. F. Eden

It is hard to believe that such things could happen in Russia, even eighty years ago; but the truth of the narrative it is impossible to dispute.
— from A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov