This important victory opened to them the whole Electorate and neighbouring territories, so that the allies were not only enabled to maintain their winter quarters there, but drew from the country large supplies of men and horses.
— from The Thirty Years War — Volume 05 by Friedrich Schiller

They told him they were Englishmen, and not to stay above twenty or thirty days, and desired permission to trade in his Majesty's port.
— from The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe

and from that the transition was easy and natural to “Sensible person; such manners, such dignity; fit for any position in the world.
— from General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

Upon returning on board, the officers reported that the natives had invited them to land, more especially the women, with unequivocal gestures, and that moreover, there was excellent anchorage near the shore within reach of water.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne