The dust they raised was blown in our faces, and contained so much salt that my eyes began to smart painfully.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

They have shut themselves up in their selfish Ego , and have said: this voice is ours alone , and they see not, wretched men that they are, that if they put a bound to it, they blot it out from all creation, since God did not create the planter but the man .
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King

Their bounties were bestowed indiscriminately on Federal and Confederate sufferers, and evidenced a broad philanthropy untainted by party-feeling or religious bigotry.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens