The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.

She finished forty-fourth in the race.

In a youth entering life under the protection of such relations, who could have anticipated the future dramatist and poet laureat […] ? In his after career, his early connections with the puritans, and the principles of his kinsmen during the civil wars and usurpation, were often made subjects of reproach […]

Both men seemed to enjoy these contests, always laced with the tension caused by constant government bleating about the ABC's left-wing bias.