The assault was promptly made with the sabre, unaided by carbine or pistol fire, and Young cut down or routed the force in front of him, which dispersed in disorder toward the river.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

‘Glad his Highness Prince Eugen is recovering,’ Racksole said, urged by considerations of politeness.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett

And most happy too am I to remark that no change, no vicissitude of war, nor variance of politics, nor all the fleeting circumstances of these most eventful times, have had effect or influence upon your Grace, whom I am truly happy to observe are still the same, unchanged by circumstance or [Pg 239] time—another Aristippus, whom every situation becomes and every fortune adorns, be it prosperous or adverse!"
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 2 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge

After-pains must be looked upon as an important agent in preventing those attacks of inflammation and fever which arise from the retention of putrid coagula and lochia: they ought not therefore to be checked, unless their severity is such as really demands it: hence the custom of giving an opiate after every labour cannot be too strongly reprobated, for by this means those uterine contractions are suspended, by which nature would have rid herself of the offending cause: nor do we consider ourselves justified in giving an opiate where after-pains are severe, until by change of posture, &c. we are satisfied that no accumulation exists in the passages.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby