A fact so extraordinary astonished the king, and perhaps excited some feeling of superstitious fear, akin to regret.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The first use he made of his returning strength, was to tell us that he had been captured by Indians, and kept a prisoner ever since,—exactly as old Folkard had supposed; that he was not as badly treated as he expected, but so strictly watched, that in spite of all the attempts he had made, he could not effect his escape until two days before, when he found that a war-party was about to set off to attack an emigrant train coming westward, of which they had just gained tidings.
— from Adventures in the Far West by William Henry Giles Kingston

He feared to face our warriors, but he shot an old woman!” answered the little maid; and then, inspired with confidence by the scout’s kind and pitiful expression, she related the whole story of the savage and wanton murder perpetrated by the Flint, the subsequent vengeance of her people, and the unchecked flight and dispersion of Jake’s comrades.
— from Charlie to the Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

He at the same time severely censured the conduct of some, who, in their discourses, "depreciated those kindnesses, and propagated evil surmises of the future, when it would better become them rather to return thanks for the past."
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

She was always keen about public events; she wrote an address on the opposition to the repeal of the Test Act in 1791, and she published her poem to Wilberforce on the rejection of his great bill for abolishing slavery:— Friends of the friendless, hail, ye generous band!
— from A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie

As the frigate is commissioned to visit Ceylon and the Nicobar Islands, she cannot sail direct from the Cape to Australia; and the hope must therefore be abandoned of her visiting the small basaltic islands, known as Prince Edward's (47° 2′ S., 38° E.), and Possession (46° 28′ S., 47° 30′ E.), belonging to the Crozet's Group, or the two islands, long confounded with each other, of Amsterdam (Lat. 37° 48′ S.) and St. Paul (Lat. 38° 38′ S.)
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

The magistrate said that this might be necessary if a new charge were brought against the servitor, Katterle, and perhaps even Sir Heinz Schorlin himself.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

392 , 393 , 394 , 396 , 528 , 591 Santa Ana, N. M., 745 Santa Barbara, 638 Santa Clara cr., 605 Santa Clara , N. M., 605 , on site of Kapoa, a pueblo existent since 1598 Santa Cruz , Ariz., 773 Santa Cruz de Rosales, 668 Santa Cruz, N. M., 605 , 606 Santa Cruz r., 734 , 735 , 773 Santa Eulalia, 764 Santa Fé mts., 606 , 736 Santa Fé , Fe, Fee, N. M., xli , xlvii , lii , lvi , 359 , 405 , 413 , 414 , 424 , 426 , 429 , 437 , 438 , 446 , 498 , 499 , 500 , 502 , 503 , 504 , 505 , 509 , 517 , 544 , 558 , 563 , 571 , 574 , 583 , 586 , 588 , 595 , 596 , 597 , 604 , 605 , 606 , 607 , 608 , 609 , 610 , 611 , 612 , 613 , 614 , 615 , 619 , 622 , 623 , 627 , 633 , 639 , 640 , 641 , 643 , 729 , 737 , 738 , 739 , 740 , 745 , 746 , 753 , 755 , 756 , 758 , 764 , 807 , 809 , 816 , 819 , 820 , 823 , 828 , 829 , 831 , 849 , 850 , 851 , see Fort Marcy , Oñate, Juan de , and San Miguel's church Santa Fé r. or cr., 606 , 607 , 613 ,
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 3 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

The great Earl of Warwick led the White Rose of York to victory, sending the { 68} Lancastrian King to the tower, his wife and child fugitives from the Kingdom, and proclaimed Edward, (son of Richard Duke of York, the original claimant, who had been slain in the conflict), King of England.
— from A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland by Mary Platt Parmele

The King and Prince Edward stood in the great hall of Nottingham Castle, about to go forth on horseback.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James