[918] The letter also informed the Deputy-Governor that two companies of troops that had remained in Virginia ever since the Rebellion, could no longer be maintained at the expense of the royal Exchequer.
— from Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

They have risen in value enormously, and are rising all the time.
— from Following the Sun-Flag: A Vain Pursuit Through Manchuria by Fox, John, Jr.

"A victory," he is said to have remarked, "is very essential to England at this hour.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

He was down among them, lower than the herd, rolling in vulgar epithets that, attached to one like him, became of monstrous distortion.
— from The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a Well-known Story — Complete by George Meredith

Subsequently, that he might not receive any further annoyance front the injuries done him by the tribunes, he retired into voluntary exile at Liternum: it is uncertain whether he died there or at Rome, for monuments were erected to his memory in both places.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

The rebellion seems to have risked its very existence in the coming conflict, which cannot be many days hence.
— from Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier