But it was not long ere a sister kingdom established itself in Susiana, or Elam, the fertile tract between the Lower Tigris and the Zagros mountains.
— from Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson

Exercising the greatest economy, she had yet not been able to save more than three pounds out of her long engagement; and she knew not where the next money was to come from.
— from Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley

Her kingdom had been long established, and she knew how to reign.
— from Mrs. Darrell by Foxcroft Davis

‘Don’t be afraid of Lancaster, Ernest,’ Arthur said kindly.
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

They had come to a culmination at the time when the king, whom Barney had placed upon a throne at the risk of his own life, discovered that his savior loved the girl to whom the king had been betrothed since childhood and that the girl returned the American's love even after she knew that he had but played the part of a king.
— from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs

They were all brought together in 1863 in the Loan Exhibition at South Kensington.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

She regarded Wyeth, out of her liquid eyes, and smiled kindly, confidentially.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

We stopped long enough at Seoul, Korea, to talk to representatives of trade and commerce and to chat with the "Grand Old Man of Korea," before arriving in Peking.
— from The Log of the Empire State by Geneve L. A. Shaffer