This Fawkener, I think, became Sir Edward Fawkener, and some kind of 'Secretary to the Duke of Cumberland:'—I judge it to be the same Fawkener; a man highly unmemorable now, were it not for the young Frenchman he was hospitable to.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle

The populace invoked curses upon Nero without intermission, not uttering his name but simply cursing those who had set the city on fire: and this was especially the case because they were disturbed by the memory of the oracle chanted in Tiberius's day.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Those who have been subjected to these steamboat impositions will readily perceive that Uncle Nathan was in no very agreeable state of mind.
— from Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west by Warren T. Ashton

To dream of taking revenge, is a sign of a weak and uncharitable nature, which if not properly governed, will bring you troubles and loss of friends.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

Now, that, we all think, was particularly ungrateful: now, was it not?' 'If the countess—if ingratitude had anything to do with it,' said Cecilia.
— from Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6 by George Meredith

I think that, long before authentic history begins, Asar and Aset his wife reigned in Egypt, probably in that wide valley of the Upper Nile which is now the site of Girgeh and Berbé” (exactly where I place the principality of Osiris).
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen

—I understand now, what I never could understand in Europe.
— from Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

A conspicuous feature among them was his own colossal statue set up near what is now called, from it, the Colosseum.
— from Under Cæsars' Shadow by Henry Francis Colby