While Lord Hutchinson and Sitta Nefysseh returned with the wounded to Alexandria, where the wives of the disabled and dead Mamelukes were weeping and lamenting, Mohammed Ali returned to the ship.
— from Mohammed Ali and His House by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Appearing to notice nothing, she began to make conversation, discoursing gently on various unimportant topics until Toni grew more like herself; and when at length Mrs. Anstey rose to go she had completely won Toni's grateful heart.
— from The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott &Co. When we find actually embalmed in a book the simple and touching song, "Let me kiss him for his mother," our first inclination is to take all its merit for granted and hurry by, capping the matter as we pass with the inevitable quotation which also begins with a let me , and refers to making the songs of a people, with infinitive contempt for the adjustment of their laws.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various

He left town, accompanied by Clarke, who clung to him like his shadow, in the constant hope that he would at last make a revelation They crossed the Mississippi together, and on arriving behind Concordia, the bereaved father once more besought Tully to tell him what had become of his son, swearing that, if he did not do so, he would dog him day and night, but that he should never escape alive out of his hands.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

As lord of the manor, therefore, the King was a liberal master, always ready to arrange a compromise with his tenants as to vexatious feudal claims.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green