And thus did Simon get possession of Jerusalem, in the third year of the war, in the month Xanthicus [Nisan]; whereupon John, with his multitude of zealots, as being both prohibited from coming out of the temple, and having lost their power in the city, [for Simon and his party had plundered them of what they had,] were in despair of deliverance.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Ay, of a snail; for though he comes slowly, he carries his house on his head- a better jointure, I think, than you make a woman; besides, he brings his destiny with him.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Lord John, I trust that you will not countenance such madness?" "Dooced ingenious, I call it," said our peer.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

"'Come, Monsieur Jansoulet, I trust that you won't insult me as they have done.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

"Madame la Marquise never dreamed of sacrificing any of her friends to her schemes—let alone her own son; and apparently she was justified in thinking that you had misinterpreted her thoughts...."
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

wee haue sett our hande, this Eight daye of July, in the Tenth year of our Reigne, 1634."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

But by the Lord who made me, Jack, I thought that you might be left with some sense of justice!"
— from The Pursuit by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile

The date is surprising; for the first chapter has made Nebuchadrezzar a king of [Pg 143] Babylon after the siege of Jerusalem "in the third year of Jehoiakim"; and setting aside the historic impossibilities involved in that date, this scene would then fall in the second year of the probation of Daniel and his companions, and at a time when Daniel could only have been a boy of fifteen.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Geven under the Seale of Office at Douer Castle the sixt daie of July in the thirteenth yeare of the reigne of our Souereigne Lord, James, by the grace of God of Great Britaine, Frannce, and Ireland, king, Defender of the fayth, &c. (Sd.) R. Somerset.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton