“It shows that the duke and Gassion were of the same opinion that we expressed, namely, that your discovery of that ambush was the chief factor in bringing about the victory of Rocroi.”
— from Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

She could never forget the winter evening, now three years past, when two women of that forbidden faith had passed through the village and had sought to spend the night at Hopewell’s little inn.
— from Master Simon's Garden: A Story by Cornelia Meigs