The materials have been found, not only in many works of history, biography, memoir and reminiscence, both German and English, some of which are little known, especially to English readers, but also in the recollection of persons who were honoured with the Empress’s friendship.
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

Upon this he was kind enough to express regret, and ask me to reconsider; but I stood my ground firmly, and then
— from When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Charles Major

By dispersing these detachments he would prevent support being sent to Romney; by cutting the telegraph along the railroad he would sever the communication between Banks at Frederick and Rosecrans THE FIRST ENTERPRISE 190 in West Virginia, and compel Kelly either to evacuate Romney or fight him single-handed.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

Ten or a dozen years ago Rudyard Kipling entertained the English reading public of the world with a vivacious sketch of aërial navigation in the year 2000 A.D.
— from Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

There is no doubt at all that these ballads (which are well known even to English readers by the masterly paraphrases of Lockhart) are among the finest of their kind.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

The term was in common use in England until the change of religion at the Reformation; and now it is not known even to English Roman Catholics.
— from English As We Speak It in Ireland by P. W. (Patrick Weston) Joyce

RUDOLF STEINER AUTHOR OF "MYSTICS OF THE RENAISSANCE," "THE GATES OF KNOWLEDGE," ETC. THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITED BY H. COLLISON THE AUTHORIZED ENGLISH TRANSLATION G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK AND LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1914 Copyright, 1914 by H. COLLISON The copyrights, the publishing rights, and the editorial responsibility for the translations of the works of Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D., with the exception of those already published under the editorial supervision of Mr. Max Gysi, are now vested in Mr. Harry Collison, M.A., Oxon.
— from Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity by Rudolf Steiner

Each was kind enough to express regret and all agreed that my scheme was logical.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland