Upon this I prepared to go on board the ship; but told the captain I would stay that night to prepare my things, and desired him to go on board in the meantime, and keep all right in the ship, and send the boat on shore next day for me; ordering him, at all events, to cause the new captain, who was killed, to be hanged at the yard-arm, that these men might see him.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

But such an extreme measure as kicking a regiment into action was repugnant to the colonel.
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

He adds some very faint UPPER lines in Glen Spean (seen, by the way, by Agassiz), and has shown that Milne and Kemp are right in there being horizontal aqueous markings (NOT at coincident levels with those of Glen Roy) in other parts of Scotland at great heights, and he adds several other cases.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Upon this, I prepared to go on board the ship; but told the captain, that I would stay that night to prepare my things; and desired him to go on board in the meantime, and keep all right in the ship, and send the boat on shore the next day for me; ordering him in the meantime to cause the new captain who was killed, to be hanged at the yard-arm, that these men might see him.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

He has maps, and knowledge always ready in his brain; and he speaks these islanders’ language better than they can themselves.
— from The King's Esquires; Or, The Jewel of France by George Manville Fenn

"Go and say to her that I command her to dance," said Frederick, who felt himself once more a king, and rejoiced in his power over this enchantress, who almost held him in her toils.
— from Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Upon this I prepared to go on board the ship, and desired him to go on board in the meantime, and keep all right in the ship; but told the captain I would stay that night to prepare my things, and told him to send the boat on shore next day for me; ordering him, at all events, to cause the new captain, who was killed, to be hanged at the yardarm, that these men might see him.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

In the Tower he was made a knight, and rejoicings in anticipation of his coronation made the old walls ring again to gladness.
— from The Tower of London by Arthur Poyser

I was absorbed for the time in the servant I have more than once mentioned, who was my master, and knew and rejoiced in it.
— from My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum By a Sane Patient by Herman Charles Merivale

Around those tresses meet and kiss, And roses in her lap of Love the home!
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

11.—That a people sometimes accounted "the active race of mankind"; as keen and reliable in business as any in the universe; the reputed first inventors of the mariner's compass, of gunpowder, of ink, printing, and paper (which have contributed so much to England's greatness), should be content with such a condition of things may well pass belief.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent