Eva had quite persuaded herself that the two elder girls were ready, and that it only needed some keeping up to the mark on her part to bring the new plan about.
— from A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends by May Baldwin

If Fletcher of Saltoun is in the right about the influence of national songs, you would say France was come to a poor pass.
— from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson

Having refused to participate in the rebellion at the invitation of Ni Shih-chung and Chang Tso-lin, Chang Hsun will certainly not do what Tsao Kun has not dared to do.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

The oaths of Louis, and promises of Lothaire, had been broken; and Arnulf of Flanders, the murderer of Duke William, had incited them to repeated and treacherous inroads on Normandy; so that Richard’s life, from fourteen to five or six-and-twenty, had been one long war in defence of his country.
— from The Little Duke: Richard the Fearless by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge