The ablative which is used to express this relation is called the ablative of time . 275.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

He meant to support the Executive in attacking the Senate and taking away its two-thirds vote and power of confirmation, nor did he much care how it should be done, for he thought it safer to effect the revolution in 1870 than to wait till 1920.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

By and by Creed and I abroad, and called at several churches; and it is a wonder to see, and by that to guess the ill temper of the City at this time, either to religion in general, or to the King, that in some churches there was hardly ten people in the whole church, and those poor people.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point—one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed—they contrived in the end to reach it.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

We expect resistance to be relinquished, the counter-siege to collapse, when our interpretation has enabled the ego to recognize it.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

To say the truth, it is often safer to abide by the consequences of the first blunder than to endeavour to rectify it; for by such endeavours we generally plunge deeper instead of extricating ourselves; and few persons will on such occasions have the good-nature which Mrs Fitzpatrick displayed to Jones, by saying, with a smile, “You need attempt no more excuses; for I can easily forgive a real lover, whatever is the effect of fondness for his mistress.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Others again, in that opposite extreme, do as great harm by their too much remissness, they give them no bringing up, no calling to busy themselves about, or to live in, teach them no trade, or set them in any good course; by means of which their servants, children, scholars, are carried away with that stream of drunkenness, idleness, gaming, and many such irregular courses, that in the end they rue it, curse their parents, and mischief themselves.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Cavalry can rally so rapidly on the main body that it is evidently desirable to have considerable bodies of such troops, as they greatly facilitate the execution of a slow and methodical retreat, and furnish the means of thoroughly examining the road itself and the neighborhood, so as to prevent an unexpected onset of the enemy upon the flanks of the retreating columns.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

It was alleged in excuse that the treaty provided for its own abrogation; but of course it is infinitely better to have a treaty under which the power to exercise a necessary right is explicitly retained rather than a treaty so drawn that recourse must be had to the extreme step of abrogating if it ever becomes necessary to exercise the right in question.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

When the signal-man holds half the trumps and the echoer the remainder, it amuses them and does not hurt the adversary; for weight will tell, wholly irrespective of conventions.
— from The Decline and Fall of Whist: An Old Fashioned View of New Fangled Play by John Petch Hewby

We'll have favourable winds, a quick passage, and not the least difficulty in finding the spot, and money to eat, to roll in, to play duck and drake with ever after.”
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The players were called in from the field, the captains bent over a tossed coin; and, first to bat, the Ellerton team ranged itself on benches.
— from The Lay Anthony: A Romance by Joseph Hergesheimer

It had not brought her the peace that prayer brings to women; for the confession of her love before the very altar—the mere coming into audience with the Eternal to renounce it—had set upon it the seal of irrevocable truth.
— from Flute and Violin, and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances by James Lane Allen

Vocal exercise must not only be physiologically intelligent, but there must always be some conception back of it which it is the aim of the exercise to realize in the voice.
— from The Voice and Spiritual Education by Hiram Corson

All authors agree that cavalry horses understand the common military commands; one writer even avers that they excel the recruits in this respect.
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst

[945] The Huguenots even went so far as to attempt to engage the reformed in the Low Countries to join them in assaulting the duke in his march through Savoy.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

After William Baffin, the pilot of an expedition sent out to explore this region in 1616.
— from Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings by Trench H. Johnson

I requested three days to endeavour to raise it, determining in that time to mortgage my half pay, and live on a small annuity which my wife possessed, rather than be under an obligation to so worthless a man: but this short time was not allowed me; for that evening, as I was sitting down to supper, unsuspicious of danger, an officer entered, and tore me from the embraces of my family.
— from Charlotte Temple by Mrs. Rowson