The carnival comes so early this year that he must soon be off, as he intends to take Naples en route to Rome.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

Samuel Adams drew up the instructions to the newly elected representatives of Boston to use all efforts against the plan of parliamentary taxation.
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann

She had wondered if the truth need ever reach Richard, and there had floated before her mind's eye a newspaper paragraph: "Roger Peacey, described as a clerk, fined forty shillings for being drunk and disorderly and obstructing the police in the course of their duty...."
— from The Judge by Rebecca West

If this is true, then no earthly ruler was every so neglected and insulted, so generally ignored, as this very Deity to whom you ascribe unlimited power, and from whom you say you receive life and everything.
— from Barriers Burned Away by Edward Payson Roe

In this triangle, New England returned to the Barbadoes non-perishable and most lucrative rum and salt codfish--codfish for the many fast-days of the Roman Catholic Church; New England rum to exchange with profit for slaves, coffee, and sugar.
— from Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle