A small party of Texan spies, under Major McCulloch, dispatched to the hacienda of Encarnacion, thirty miles from this, on the route to San Louis Potosi, had reported a cavalry force of unknown strength at that place.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

Thanks to the change which grief and sickness give, In low estate I may securely live, And see, unknown, my mistress day by day.
— from Dryden's Palamon and Arcite by Geoffrey Chaucer

As I was gradually receding from the exhibition, the arduous duties began to thicken more strongly upon my man Daniel, of whom I have before often spoken.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

She usually made M. de Fontanes the confidant of her sorrows; for the grand master of the university, notwithstanding his exquisite politeness and his admirable literary style, was very intimately associated with the household of Marshal Lefebvre.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

Add to which, she used my momentary disorientation to get custody of Amy.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

Traube, l.c., No. 27; L. Delisle, “Notice sur un manuscrit mérovingien de Saint-Médard de Soissons” in Revue archéologique , Nouv.
— from A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Edward Kennard Rand

At his death my father left a fortune of £155,000, having settled upon my mother during his lifetime a personal fortune amounting to an equal sum.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

He had now cast from him the last vestige of his loyalty for his employer, and thus freed had determined to use every means within his power to win Professor Maxon's daughter, and with her the heritage of wealth which he knew would be hers should her father, through some unforeseen mishap, meet death before he could return to civilization and alter his will, a contingency which von Horn knew he might have to consider should he marry the girl against her father's wishes, and thus thwart the crazed man's mad, but no less dear project.
— from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“True, father,” said Kate, and after that she remained silent until Mr Meldrum declared it was time to go below.
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Judy wrote and begged me to use my influence with him, and I did, but while things were still unsettled my mother died suddenly, and almost directly afterwards came the American Bank crash, reducing us all to comparative poverty, and making poor Dick’s horizon darker than ever.
— from The Claw by Cynthia Stockley