He waited a moment, and as the doctor made no comment, "Although they didn't pull it off well together, still for my sake they both kept up a kind of armed truce, eh, Mallet?"
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Stas, not without a certain pride, thought that having escaped during his journey from Fashoda with only Nell and the two negroes, without any means, he might come to the ocean coast at the head of two hundred armed men with an elephant and horses.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Through the Place, crowded as it was by an armed and excited multitude, way was rapidly made for the little party who now issued from the door of the hotel.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever