From Washington I flew to New York, where I found True in a turmoil.
— from The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe

He would not have first inquired whether or not you were intended for the ministry.
— from Janet McLaren, the Faithful Nurse by William Henry Giles Kingston

The weather continued hot and dry right into the New Year, when I found the water in the alhibi, or reservoir in the courtyard was becoming exhausted.
— from Blanco y Colorado: Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay by William C. Tetley

From San Francisco: A New Yorker writes: “I found The Chautauquan on a planter’s table in the Sandwich Islands, and learned of a circle in Honolulu.”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, October 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

In the nine years which immediately followed the accession of William and Mary, about forty distinct acts of taxation were passed by Parliament.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

This truly sporting mode of killing the Striped Bass is not used in New York, where, in fact, there are few fishermen, except fly fishermen—some very good, although, like angel visits—or pot fishermen.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6, June 1850 by Various

At Oppido, a place originally Greek, a pretty young woman, aged nineteen years, was immured for thirty hours, and shortly after her husband had extricated her she became a mother.
— from Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

[Pg 16] Is named your wars in France: this makes bold mouths: 60 Tongues spit their duties out, and cold hearts freeze Allegiance in them; their curses now [110] Live where their prayers did; and it's come to pass, This tractable obedience is a slave
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare