From Loughsweedy, Bruce broke up his quarters, and marched into Kildare, encamping successively at Naas, Kildare, and Rathangan.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas Wallingford, of that part of ancient Dover afterwards Somersworth, and now known as Rollinsford, who was one of the wealthiest and most eminent men of the province, associate justice of the supreme court from 1748 until his death, which took place at Portsmouth, August 4, 1771.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

They performed all sorts of college pranks together, even running through the streets at night, knocking and ringing at every door, much delighted when they had waked up some honest bourgeois.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Volume 06 by Louis Constant Wairy

" "Yes, she's a nice kid all right, but I can't see the pretty about her—not a little bit.
— from Leaves in the Wind by A. G. (Alfred George) Gardiner