I do not pretend to any special information not hitherto given to the public in this further matter, but the reader may consider for himself whether the conciliatory policy which Lord Salisbury pursued towards Russia in China at this time—a policy which excited hostile criticism in England—was designed to influence the impending conflict on the Upper Nile and make it certain, or at least likely, that when Great Britain and France should be placed in direct opposition, France should find herself alone.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill

He and his crew suspected nothing when they saw the yacht's launch approaching, and it was not until Newton and Murdock, in company with a number of lusty and savage men, had gained the deck, and attacked Captain Barton and his crew, that any hint of foul play was suspected.
— from Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht; Or, A Young Millionaire and the Kidnappers by Howard Roger Garis

I thought five would be an unostentatious number and make it clear that I was not trying to compete with the wholesale egg-dealers.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 29, 1920 by Various