Y.M. Indeed, yes! “I saw Esau kissing Kate, And she saw I saw Esau; I saw Esau, he saw Kate, And she saw—”
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The officer who held this post from 1809 till he was killed at St. Sebastian in September, 1813, was Colonel Richard Fletcher, who has left a fame behind him as the designer of the Lines of Torres Vedras.
— from Wellington's Army, 1809-1814 by Charles Oman

By thrusting the long rowels of his Mexican spurs through the hair-girth with which his saddle was strapped to the horse’s back, he was able to keep a secure seat in spite of the furious efforts made to dislodge him; and when at last his nag was wearied with his fruitless struggles, he urged him into a lope, and in a few seconds drew up beside his friends at the head of the wagon-train. 17 CHAPTER II.
— from Snowed Up; or, The Sportman's Club in the Mountains by Harry Castlemon

“And you can keep a secret, should it so happen?” asked Jucundus, “and do an errand, if I gave you one?”
— from Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman

Kalaoun appropriated the revenue of the two large villages Bysous and Sandabeir, in Lower Egypt, to the expense of the kesoua; and Sultan Solyman Ibn Selym subsequently added several others; but the Kaaba has long been deprived of this resource.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

Being the wife of an amiable and good-natured man who was unable to support his family, Fru Lind was obliged to keep a small school in Stockholm to eke out expenses, and as she had not time to take care of Jenny as well as teach, the child had for three years been boarded out with a church organist's family not far from the city, but had finally been brought back, to become a pupil in her mother's school, being cared for mainly by her grandmother, to whom Jenny was devotedly attached.
— from Ten Girls from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

That no government had a right to keep a single soul in slavery; that no nation had authority to permit slavery, let that nation exist where it may; if professing to be a Christian nation, so much the more atrocious was their wickedness.
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge