The Sultan, in hopes of reviving the credit of his currency, ordered that every one bringing copper tokens to the Treasury should have them cashed in gold or silver.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

She was sick of exploring, and desired but to be safe in her own room, with her own heart only privy to its folly; and she was on the point of retreating as softly as she had entered, when the sound of footsteps, she could hardly tell where, made her pause and tremble.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

So saying, Newman slipped into a tall empty closet which opened with two half doors, and shut himself up; intending to slip out directly Ralph was safe inside his own room.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

In various enchanted attitudes, like the standing, or stepping, or running skeletons in Herculaneum, others remained rooted to the deck; but all their eyes upcast.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

If she had seen his face when, safe in his own room, he looked at the picture of a severe and rigid young lady, with a good deal of hair, who appeared to be gazing darkly into futurity, it might have thrown some light upon the subject, especially when he turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

For days together he sat in his own room working, in spite of the flies and the heat.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

323 Letter of J. M. Mason, jr., to Secretary of War, September 25, 1837, in Everett, speech in House of Representatives, May 31, 1838; also quoted in extract by Royce, op.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

That night Sidney tried to persuade the keeper to sleep in his own room, and let him use one of the beds on the upper floor; but Captain Eph was so emphatic in his refusal that the lad could do no less than hold his peace.
— from The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-house Service by James Otis

She must not sleep in her old room.
— from The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

At those happy periods, he could give a friend, as he said, a good dinner, a good glass of wine, and a good song afterwards; and poor Cos often heard with envy the roar of Strong's choruses, and the musical clinking of the glasses, as he sate in his own room, so far removed and yet so near to those festivities.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

“I am a little surprised to see Mrs. Farnaby present at parties of this sort; I should have thought she would have stayed in her own room.”
— from The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins

The assembled regiments raised a shout in honor of Ramses XIII.
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

Herr Sonnenkamp, I have one request only to make of you. Give me your hand, promise to grant it to me."
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach