The outsider was not to be so easily put off; he pressed his suit with fresh energy, affirming that his deficiency of horses was from want of opportunity, not from lack of will or ability to appropriate the first that came within his reach.
— from The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne

On the day of invitation our captain came on board, and told our new first lieutenant (of whom I shall say more hereafter) that the governor insisted that all his officers should go—that he would take no denial, and, therefore, he presumed, go they must; that the fact was, that the governor was a relation of his wife, and under some trifling obligations to him in obtaining for him his present command.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat