And Abimelech particularly is called king, though at most he was but their general.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

With all due acknowledgments of his generosity, she begged to be excused from embracing his proposal, alleging she was so much accustomed to her present way of life, and so much devoted to the service of the soldiery, that she should never be happy in retirement, while the troops of any prince in Christendom kept the field.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I lost them off into the soup, the first night at dinner, and I bought my spectacles early the next morning; but perhaps I can keep them on now."
— from In Blue Creek Cañon by Anna Chapin Ray

There was a sudden appreciation of the delicacy of her own position and of the danger to which her friendship with Mrs. Rumsen was being subjected—and, highly as she had prized it, Camilla knew that if her visitor could not take her own point of view with regard to Jeff's father and with regard to Jeff himself she must herself bring that friendship to an end.
— from The Forbidden Way by George Gibbs

[3] (the province is called ‘Kalor’), there grow gourds, which, when they are ripe, open, and within them is found a little beast like unto a young lamb, even as I myself have heard reported that there stand certain trees upon the shore of the Irish Sea bearing fruits like unto a gourd, which at a certain time of the year do fall into the water and become birds called Bernacles; and this is true.”
— from The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant. To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade by Henry Lee

I remember that my brainy partner is counting khaki trousers in the Army clothing department.
— from The Title: A Comedy in Three Acts by Arnold Bennett

I have followed many a dim trail in dark forests, and this is so plain I could keep to it on a run if necessary.
— from Beyond the Frontier: A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish

If I went home at once, before anybody else came to the town to fill the empty place, I could keep the connection together; and as I wouldn't spend any money—well, in the ways my poor father often spent it—I should easily earn enough to keep myself and the children.
— from Blood Royal: A Novel by Grant Allen

But if I may make so bold, Mr Jones,—wouldn't all the people in Carmarthen know the old Squire's carriage?"
— from Cousin Henry by Anthony Trollope

As, seated by the side of the chief constable, he drove along that afternoon, Ned turned it over anxiously in his mind whether it would be honest to allow this letter to be produced in court, knowing that it was only the device of a friend, Finally he decided to let matters take their course.
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The relations of the Christian and Moslem potentates being thus friendly, it can be seen how the Princess Irene could keep to her palace by Therapia and the Prince of India plan jaunts along the Bosphorus.
— from The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 by Lew Wallace

And so the "large white plumes" blinded his eyes to the fear and the dread that were in the hearts of the people, and he tells his readers nothing of the sadness that men felt who put in crops knowing that their wives must cultivate and harvest them.
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White