From her throne at the record-table, she issued proclamations of baths and fine combs, of clean bedding and trimmed nails, of tea and toast, of regular hours for the babies.
— from Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

About this time a revolution, or rather a series of revolts, by those known by the name of the Aithech Tuatha , or rent-paying tribes (the Atticotti of continental writers), broke out, and resulted in the temporary success of the servile race and the annihilation of the greater part of the nobility.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

That portion of the continent between this river and the Arabian gulf has been held by the same peoples since the time the ancient Egyptians sent their trading ships to “the land Punt,” the name under which they knew it; and these peoples were not of the Austafrican type or race.
— from Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton

Some such outward sign would seem to be necessary, not only to assure the original recipient that the supposed revelation is not a vagary of his own imagination, but also to render the revelation received by a single individual authoritative to all (compare Judges 6:17, 36-40—Gideon asks a sign, for himself; 1 K. 18:36-38—Elijah asks a sign, for others).
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

After supper, a meal which revolted every sense, there had been as many hours to be got through with as he found wakeful, an empty stomach often adding to the number of them, and the only resource for passing the time had been reading, which had often been well-nigh impossible for sheer physical discomfort.
— from The Christmas Story from David Harum by Edward Noyes Westcott

"I have had enough of your politic men, with two faces, and neither of them a true one," replied Valentine; "allow me to return to our friends."
— from The Adventurers by Gustave Aimard