" "The King," said Captain Travis, with some awe; "is there a king?" "I never saw a king," Gordon remarked, "and I'm sure I never expected to see one sitting on a log in the rain.
— from The Exiles and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis

," said I, in a voice of thunder; "what the devil are you grinning at?" "You may as well come, my man; you're found out; they all know it now," said the fellow with an odious grin.
— from The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

Even the ancient Kremlin is not sanct From their infernal scheme!
— from The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon by Thomas Hardy

The next day, as we were returning, three hundred of the enemy again came up, like bears bereaved of their young; they fought, and made a fort of every swamp in the way, covering their bodies with the green boughs and the long grass, so that we were sometimes in the very midst of them, and knew it not, save by the sudden yell and the volley.”
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake

If they take a keen interest no statesman dependent for his position on the votes of the electorate will dare to embody in a treaty a policy of which they disapprove; while if they do not take an adequate interest, no amount of constitutional provisions will enable them to exercise an intelligent control over the actions of statesmen.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson