The emigrant party of '43, which he accompanied, arrived at their destination in November last, "after having braved and overcome unparalleled dangers and difficulties from savages, from hunger, from thirst, crossing parched treeless 407 plains, fierce angry rivers, and forcing their wagons through 1000 miles of mountains, declared impassable by the most experienced guides and voyageurs."
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

It is fair-time, and I did not arrive, as one usually does, a day behind it, but on the very day it commenced.
— from James Frederick Ferrier by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane

It is not among the least gratifying incidents of the struggle that the obligations of neutrality were impartially discharged by all, often under delicate and difficult circumstances.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

There was always or usually dessert at dinner, which "consists of an apple, a biscuit, a few almonds and raisins, cherries, gooseberries, or plums."
— from The Dungeons of Old Paris Being the Story and Romance of the Most Celebrated Prisons of the Monarchy and the Revolution by Tighe Hopkins

The scene of operations was not merely distant from the submarine base, it was divided from it by an approach of unusual danger and difficulty.
— from Submarine and Anti-submarine by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir

"I suppose we're all of us disliked and distrusted—by somebody," said Andrew.
— from The Transgression of Andrew Vane: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

We all of us dislike and distrust any insect that resembles a bee or wasp, and that buzzes or hums in a hostile manner: we give all such creatures a wide berth, wherever found, on the bare off-chance that they may turn out to be venomous—be hornets or so forth.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, February 1899, No. 98. by Various

The conscientious thing to do, as we get older and find ourselves slower, more timid, more inactive, more anxious, is to consult a candid friend, and to follow his advice rather than our own inclination; a certain fearfulness, an avoidance of unpleasant duty, a dreary foreboding, is apt to be characteristic of age.
— from Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear by Arthur Christopher Benson

"Your plan, sir, is this," answered the solicitor, with the same air of unanswerable decision and discernment which he wore in the steamer;—"take a trip of observation through the whole county for yourself: it will cost you little, if you go shrewdly to work; and you will learn much, by the way, that will be of immense service to you, in the great undertaking itself: that's the likeliest way to find your fulcrum, as a clever mechanical friend of mine always says, and then plant your intellectual lever; [92] and may it prove successful, sir, is my heart's best wish, in raising you speedily to the House of Commons!"
— from Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Cooper