She urged no more, even when relentings came over her husband at the thought of the trials to which he was leaving her, and of those which he should meet in solitude; yet not without a certain secret desire to make himself sufficient for the care and contentment of his own son.
— from The Young Step-Mother; Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He presently appeared; yet to detail How Alice stormed, I certainly should fail; Unless an iron tongue I could obtain: All Hell was ransacked epithets to gain; And Lucifer and Beelzebub were used: No mortal ever was so much abused.
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by Jean de La Fontaine

These words ran: Oh, boys, you remember the wild Colorado, Its rapids and its rocks will trouble us no more, etc., with a mention in the various stanzas of each member of the party and his characteristics.
— from A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

The weather was fine, and all went well until next morning early, when the boom of a gun signalled that a fault had broken out in the cable.
— from Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro