Ah! I can understand now why we did not receive any news from this side of the Atlantic.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

Some one opened the door at the other end of the room, and Nancy felt that it was her husband.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

as shown below: "'Wretch,' I cried, 'thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!'"
— from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

A few days later my father received a note from the manager, saying that he was going to raise the rent on the land which my father occupied.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

‘Since the above was written, we received a note from the clerk of the Thames, giving the following particulars.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

All things flow from thence: and whatsoever it is that is, is both necessary, and conducing to the whole (part of which thou art), and whatsoever it is that is requisite and necessary for the preservation of the general, must of necessity for every particular nature, be good and behoveful.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

No aids, no bulwarks your retreat attend, No friends to help, no city to defend.
— from The Iliad by Homer

When I got up I received a note from the false Astrodi, asking me if I expected her and her great chum to supper.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

All the negroes along the route had been notified to be ready at night fall to continue the work.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Thus, in the Rennes Dinnshenchas there is this passage showing that spirits or fairies were regarded as necessary for the employment of magic:—‘Folks were envious of them (Faifne the poet and his sister Aige): so they loosed elves at them who transformed Aige into a fawn’ (the form assumed by the fairy mother of Oisin, see p. 299 n. ), ‘and sent her on a circuit all round Ireland, and the fians of Meilge son of Cobthach, king of Ireland, killed her.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The Courtlander Otto, who had been on guard at the gate, had meantime been relieved, and now followed the pair through the corridors to the summer palace upon an errand which he had speciously invented.
— from Joan of the Sword Hand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"She's too robust a nature for that.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

Finally one of the Vice-Presidents of Le Bienêtre du Blessé (the well-being of the wounded) sent in a petition, and I received a note from the Ministry of War asking for two photographs similar to that of my passport, and inclosing a paper to sign.
— from Life in the War Zone by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"In the month of May, in the year MDLX, a time when sleep had refused to come to me because of my grief for my son's death: when I could get no relief from fasting nor from the flagellation I inflicted upon my legs when I rode abroad, nor from the game of chess which I then played with Ercole Visconti, a youth very dear to me, and like myself troubled with sleeplessness, I prayed God to have pity upon me, because I felt that I must needs die, or lose my wits, or at least give up my work as Professor, unless I got some sleep, and that soon.
— from Jerome Cardan: A Biographical Study by W. G. (William George) Waters

Though the glory of Aden may have fled, and her commerce become totally annihilated, her ports will long remain as nature formed them, excellent, capacious, and secure.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Denman was an inveterate gossip, and in his constant drives in the rickety and antiquated vehicle known as “the fly,” to villages and towns in the vicinity, had a knack of picking up all the news and scandal, which he retailed at night for the delectation of customers at the Sussex Arms.
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

We may search from end to end of the legal ritual, and not find those two precious words, " draw nigh ."
— from Notes on the book of Exodus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee — Respite, respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
— from The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Department of Education