Ay, who is Don Roderick that I should hold sacred a promise made to him ?”
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

As to banishment—well, you know, absence is apt to make the heart grow fonder; and if it comes to giving a young girl peremptory orders to stop being in love with somebody that she is in love with, I do really think it must always strengthen her resolve.
— from Spinster of This Parish by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

To explain the difficulty of the Resurrection of bodies which in death resolve themselves into their separate elements, Cudworth assumed that they would not appear in their substance as a body of flesh, but in some ethereal form.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

I will tantalize her, keep her with me, expecting, doubting; and when I do restore them, it shall not be without a lecture.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

I went to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and while I distinctly recollect that I enjoyed myself exceedingly, and traveled like a prince, I can more vividly recall the rapidity with which my funds were expended.
— from Living Too Fast; Or, The Confessions of a Bank Officer by Oliver Optic

The evening passed pleasantly, and Nancy's drowsy words, just before she went to sleep, were: "I do really think I cheered her."
— from Dorothy Dainty at the Mountains by Amy Brooks

What it does refer to is clearly seen in the commencement of the paragraph—"And now I say unto you, as pertaining to my boarding house, which I have commanded you to build for the boarding of strangers, etc. "
— from Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts