Then, very earnestly: “I’m rather glad we do not know her antecedents, Lyn; it’s safer to take her as we find her and build on that.
— from The Man Thou Gavest by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

Only keep his arrows lest it should happen to grow hungry here.”
— from Red Eve by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

But this he found was not to be done with a woman of Miss Flora's temper; he therefore thought it best not to keep her any longer in suspense, but let her know at once the revolution in her fate, as to that point which regarded him, and the true motive which had [Pg 365] occasioned it; which he accordingly did in these terms.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

As much as Mr. Munden was pleased to find himself so obligingly introduced by his mistress to the acquaintance of her brother, he was equally glad to be rid of him at this juncture, when he came prepared to press her so home to an eclaircissement as should deprive her of all possibility of keeping himself any longer in suspense.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Sometimes the Khanda has a long iron spike projecting from the hilt, and this was probably for the purpose of using the sword double-handed in case of need, and it could possibly also serve as an additional weapon in a close mêlée .
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

"Well then, sire," replied Overbury, determined to make one more effort, "I had better tell my Lord of Rochester at once, not to keep him any longer in suspense.
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

“Come, I call that handsome; but you know,” he added laughingly, “I shouldn’t like to make any promises, for I don’t know what a certain lady would say.
— from Glyn Severn's Schooldays by George Manville Fenn