To be ready to counteract the next move of the enemy, a part of the army was stationed at advantageous points in Westchester County, the main camps being extended along the hills west of the Bronx River.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

Midnight came, but even at that hour Edith thought that it was too early.
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille

Revyngton realised that scant mercy could be expected at their hands.
— from The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Perhaps Isaura was too infatuated with Rameau, or too romantically unselfish, to permit the fortune so mysteriously conveyed being exclusively appropriated to herself.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Of the general expenses of the establishment I do not venture to say anything, bewildered as I was in the labyrinthine complication of the currency, but it must certainly be enormous, and this house, the Partagas, was but one of many equally extensive in Havana alone.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

Nevertheless, if my counsel be evil, and thou hast permitted thy conquered enemy to show himself unto me visibly, as a sign of thy wrath, let me beseech thee.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James