By the first of these the Cherokee ceded for five thousand dollars their last remaining territory in South Carolina, a small strip in the extreme northwestern corner, adjoining Chattooga river.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

How pleasant it was to rise in the early morning before the glowing sun had begun his course; and sweeter still in the evening to listen to the thousand [115] sounds, the sharp and metallic cries, which seemed as though an army of goldsmiths were at work!
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

I find myself suddenly checked and stopped short, in the execution of my design, by a mystery which I cannot penetrate.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

This literature is rich in examples of the same thing; they have been eagerly collected and scientifically studied in the earlier psychological investigations.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

A long series of “concessions” to the Catholics (as successive steps in the establishment of religious equality were described) had, it was said, left “the Irish” without any “real grievance.”
— from The Evolution of Sinn Fein by Robert Mitchell Henry

These manures when applied to growing crops are somewhat similar in their effects to those of gypsum.
— from The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 03 (1820) by Various

She began to feel like a criminal, and struggled stammering in the effort to make her desire known, urgent though it was.
— from Juggernaut by Alice Campbell

Then her pitching ceased, and she settled into the enormous trough bodily, or the whole fabric sunk, as it were, never to rise again.
— from Homeward Bound; Or, the Chase: A Tale of the Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

We thought they'd be snowed up all quiet and comfy, but Burden, their C. O., got wind of our coming, and sent spies in to Eschol."
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

May nothing you dismay; Here's your ancient granny come To call, this Christmas day," sang Minnie, the lively member of the flock, as she bobbed little curtseys and smiled so infectiously that even cross Geoff cheered up.
— from Spinning-Wheel Stories by Louisa May Alcott