The fear of a joint attack from France and Russia seemed lifting.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

For a time Mac joined a four for a rubber or so in the cool night air, and then, collecting his blankets from below, went away forward to sleep on top of the horse-boxes with nothing but stars overhead.
— from The Tale of a Trooper by Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes) Mackenzie

The Chinese are just as fit for a republic - an actual republic is still a long way off - as are callow German youths, and notoriety-loving French students, for freedom to disbelieve and to destroy.
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier

He gave lavishly all he had to give: the assize of tenure formerly held before the judges; all fines, forfeitures, and ransoms which had not yet been handed over; the election of four justices of the peace; the placing of the mayor upon all commissions of array of men-at-arms, so that neither sheriff of the county, nor officer of the court could henceforth tax the town for military aid without his assistance and consent.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green