The loss of so many of the imperial cities was severely felt by the Swedish party; as the friendship of these towns had so largely contributed to the success of their arms, indifference to their fate would have been inexcusable.
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 05 by Friedrich Schiller

The last despatch was too vague to enable him to sign away many thousands of square miles of territory: it contradicted the tenor of Napoleon's letters, which empowered him to assent to nothing less than the Frankfurt terms.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Fredericksburg, which cannot be far from the early Chapel of the Mother of God, revives its name in her Church of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception; and other churches of the same invocation seem to declare that, as of old, so now we may say, “This is indeed the Blessed Virgin's land.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

As it was, however, they were placed upon their trial before a Commission of seven members of the Inner Circle of the American Section, presided over by the President.
— from The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

His directions to the Earl of Surrey, therefore, were that at the earliest opportunity he should call an assembly of so many of the Irish chiefs as he could induce to come to him, and to discourse to them upon the elementary principles of social order and government.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude

"Peace, dear one," said mother, "our turn is coming.
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough