2. Now when Agrippa had reigned three years over all Judea, he came to the city Cæsarea, which was formerly called Strato's Tower; and there he exhibited shows in honor of Cæsar, upon his being informed that there was a certain festival celebrated to make vows for his safety.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

"Several days, I suppose," answered Nora, "since they appeared to have eaten several notches."
— from Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls by Josephine Chase

All this has helped to produce a national feeling, stronger than any that has existed since the fatal partition of the kingdom in the fifteenth century.
— from The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song by John Oliver Wardrop

In doors things also began to look comfortable; it is true they had only three chairs and one table, but Mr. Lee had knocked together some stools and a dresser, which the children thought superior to any they had ever seen; a rack over it held their small stock of crockery, and a few hanging shelves on the wall were their book-case: cleanliness and neatness made up for the want of more and better furniture, and cheerfulness and content were at home in the humble cottage.
— from The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick

Was he not in control of a machine infinitely superior to any that had ever sprung from the hand of man, and against which men were powerless?
— from The Master of the World by Jules Verne

It was all foreappointed and foreknown, that she should come to this hateful house, and should sit there, and that her eyes should be opened and that she should see.
— from The Helpmate by May Sinclair

He again sought the two strangers, but in vain; for they had joined the advanced troop of the caravan; while a feeling, stronger than any they had excited, still fixed him in the rear, near the mohaffah of Luxima.
— from The Missionary: An Indian Tale; vol. III by Lady (Sydney) Morgan

To increase the force of the scene, they appear to have exhibited some degree of trance-perceptive power.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

And just then a great black shadow, like the shadow of a cloud, came right over them, and that noise got so loud it drowned everything, and when they looked—for they were too scared to run—sure enough, right above them was the biggest bird in the world—a thousand times bigger than Mr. Crow, of stranger shape than anything they had ever seen, and very terrible indeed.
— from Mr. Rabbit's Wedding Hollow Tree Stories by Albert Bigelow Paine

Which kind of satisfaction also conceiued by the messengers, your sayd ambassadours without giuing notice thereof vnto your royall Maiestie, refused finally to approue; being rather desirous to make a true and faithfull report of the sayd forme of satisfaction last aboue mentioned vnto your kingly highnesse, and that in such sorte, that (as they hoped) effectuall satisfaction and payment of all and singuler the summes due and to bee due on both partes should more conueniently and speedily bee performed.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

The upshot is, that with the satisfaction of having bought, as she thinks, according to her expectation, she has paid exactly the same Price as any body else would have [28] done; and give much more than, rather than not have sold his Goods, he would have taken.
— from The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money by Thomson, John, active 1732