Hard pressed were the two men of King Ryence, yet stubbornly they would not give way.
— from In the Court of King Arthur by Samuel E. (Samuel Edward) Lowe

" Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, replied: "Your dispatch is received.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Of him, therefore, torn by two natures, cast in two moulds, sport of two fates; the hymned and reviled, the loved and loathed, spendthrift and a miser, king and a beggar, the bond and the free, god and man; of King Richard Yea-and-Nay, so made, so called, and by that unmade, I thus prepare my account.'
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett