The troops of the three kingdoms also urgently prayed for quarter and protection, and Rustem readily agreed to the proffered conditions.
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Firdawsi

After that momentary glance she started up, mounted her pony, and rode rapidly away through the forest.
— from Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

It must, however, be admitted that the clergy failed to produce a religious revival among the troops.
— from The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political by Anton Ivanovich Denikin

It is, as I have said, the high protecting power of all knowledge and science, of fact and principle, of inquiry and discovery, of experiment and speculation; it maps out the territory of the intellect, and sees that the boundaries of each province are religiously respected, and that there is neither encroachment nor surrender on any side.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman