When the term of his consulship had expired, upon a motion being made in the senate by Caius Memmius and Lucius Domitius, the praetors, respecting the transactions of the year past, he offered to refer himself to the house; but (16) they declining the business, after three days spent in vain altercation, he set out for his province.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

About fifteen or sixteen years after, the King and Queen being gone to one of their houses of pleasure, the young Princess happened one day to divert herself in running up and down the palace; when going up from one apartment to another, she came into a little room on the top of the tower, where a good old woman, alone, was spinning with her spindle.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

These young performers, he observes, were of unblemished character, a circumstance which he probably mentioned because, among the Greeks, and indeed, in his time among the Romans also, the morals of singing boys were in no high repute.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Call the dog to you, pat him on the head, let him take the bone from your hand, and his tail will wag with gratitude.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The young prince had only reigned eight months, and his great beauty is the only thing mentioned of him.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

"What I would propose, in the first place—and that, in fact, is what has brought me in this morning—is that you put Henry out to a trade.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, Volume 48, March, 1854 by Various

As soon as the exercises were over the young people hurried over to where Tom Gray and his aunt stood talking with friends.
— from Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics by Josephine Chase

A copy of the garden parties which made Boucher the painter that he was, and in which we almost hear the wind rustling through the sedge, the refreshing murmur of the fountain, and see the gayly dressed marquise put her violet slipper on the turf, and the elegant and stately gentlemen as they light up the neighboring arbor with their fine silk coats in his pictures—a copy of such garden parties as those which made Watteau's fame (he has put them all on the fans, and the young people have only to copy them)—this would indeed be a "rustic masquerade," which might amuse and "draw" for a charity.
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

As the young Pretender had obtained a train of artillery, and the services of a few French officers and engineers, the reduction of the fort was not a difficult operation, and the three companies were made prisoners: the works were afterwards blown up and abandoned by the enemy.
— from Historical Record of the Sixth, or Royal First Warwickshire Regiment of Foot Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in the Year 1674, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838 by Richard Cannon

Mr. Britt was not troubled by the sight of the yellowed papers; he owned mortgages and pulled in profit by the legal curiosities known as “Holmes notes”—leeches of particular drawing power.
— from When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel by Holman Day

I don’t object to your putting hosts of slumbering incentives in Lisa’s mind, but a slumbering incentive is not vulgar and debasing, like a bribe.’
— from Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Perhaps, though, your paper has old-fashioned prejudices in favour of veracity, and will be annoyed if your imagination leads you too palpably astray?
— from The Balkan Peninsula by Frank Fox