With violent oaths and threats he first announced his odious suspicions to Elizabeth Device, and she, full of terror, communicated them to me.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

During the winter the French made several demonstrations against the British outposts at Point Levi, Cape Rouge, St. Foy, and Lorette, without, however, any result beyond bloodshed and mutually inflicted suffering; but on the 6th of April, M. de Bourlemaque, with three battalions of regular troops and a body of militia, marched from Jacques Cartier upon Cape Rouge, with the hope of surprising the English detachment at that place.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

I have often seen the Emperor dine during the Diet, but he never invited his brother, King Ferdinand, to dine with him.
— from Pictures of German Life in the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag

Both had grown hard and hardy, and I am not sure that Harry was not now quite as bold a rider as Archie himself, albeit he was a Cockney born, albeit he had had to rub himself after that first ride of his on Scallowa, the “Eider Duck.”
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

A. He made a feast to which he invited Harpagus, and after giving him of the flesh of his own son to eat, displayed to him his mutilated remains.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, December 1884, No. 3 by Chautauqua Institution

The boys had got in the habit of spending their extra dimes with him, and since he couldn’t come to them any more, they fell into the way of going to him.
— from Don Gordon's Shooting-Box by Harry Castlemon

The gallant little Belgian army, assisted by crack British and French troops, had driven the despoilers of its country from a large section which the Germans had occupied since the early days of the war, and had gained positions of such importance as to make it probable that the Germans would have to abandon the entire coast of Belgium.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish