For after agreeing to give us a fixed amount of silver for their own safety, they even now do not think it necessary to fulfil the agreement, but placing such complete confidence in the strength of their position, they are disregarding us absolutely, while we are compelled to undertake the siege of a fortress, as you surely see.
— from History of the Wars, Books I and II The Persian War by Procopius

After a little talk it was decided that I should be held over until the next Tuesday, and in the meantime I was placed in the larder, and given plenty of odd scraps to eat, no doubt to keep me plump and in good condition.
— from Bill the Minder by W. Heath (William Heath) Robinson

And, that dumb companion eyeing, The tears gushed forth which he strove to check; He bowed his head on his charger's neck: "O steed, that every nerve didst strain, Dear steed, our ride hath been in vain To the halls where my love lay dying!"
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

These do not mix well in his mind with the examples and precepts of Greek and Roman virtue: a temporary enthusiasm may have been kindled in his soul by the eloquence of antiquity; but, for want of sympathy, this enthusiasm necessarily dies away.
— from Practical Education, Volume II by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

“In the midst of life, we are in death—” There was a universal sound as of a sort of sob, that Etheldred never disconnected from those words.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

If, for example, the chief Staple town was for any reason moved from over sea to England, native dealers were absolutely forbidden to export any Staple wares, so
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

She told me, when I had tried to warn her against expecting too much on seeing the Emperor next day, that she did not intend to accompany our party, and I suspected that she had been ordered to remain away.
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr