She was related to every kind of duke and marquis, and although that fact did not impress Maggie in the least, it did seem to remove Lady Rachel into quite another world.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole

She knows I orter be careful what I put into my stomach, which is all to the bad since I can't get the right kind of drink any more, and I told her so.
— from The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell by Don Marquis

He is a knight of Dannebrog, and moreover, as he tells me, an intimate friend of yours."
— from Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

To come about now would keep our distance, and mean a classic battle.
— from The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

Full of fury at this he entered the kingdom of Daquem and marched against the city of Culbergura[573] and destroyed it and razed the fortress to the ground, and the same with many other places.
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century