To secure this a councilman of reputed integrity was paid $50,000 in consideration that he vote aye when the ordinance should come up for final passage.
— from The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

Therefore, this would be one of the species commonly used for food, and hence the necessity for the prohibition.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood

I thought of all the other interiors of the house, floor above floor, and serried one against another—vile, mean, squalid, cramped, unlovely, frowsy, fetid; but each lighted and intensely alive with the interplay of hearts; each cloistered, a secure ground where the instincts that move the world might show themselves naturally and in secret.
— from Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes by Arnold Bennett

There was little or no opposition till the scouts came under fire from Bergendal Kopje, or Drie Kraal as it was otherwise known.
— from The Record of a Regiment of the Line Being a Regimental History of the 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment during the Boer War 1899-1902 by Mainwaring George Jacson

All is still; in camp it is said that to-morrow we shall come under fire for the first time.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

But we should, no doubt, have sent them out to our Roumanian friends in due course had it not become virtually impracticable to get such goods through from the North Russian ports by the date that the subject came up for final decision.
— from Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir

Helen is giving a bridge lunch for Mrs. Marye; she's come up for Frances' wedding on the tenth.
— from Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris