No. 1807):— “Every Day, for some Time past, has offered the melancholy Scene of poor distressed Families driving downwards, through this Town, with their Effects, who have deserted their Plantations, for Fear of falling into the cruel Hands of our Savage Enemies, now daily seen in the Woods.
— from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

It was the belief of the older school of comparativists that each case had originally one single ending, which was added to [339] all nouns indifferently (e.g. -as for the genitive sg.), and that the irregularities found in the existing oldest languages were of later growth; the actually existing forms were then derived from the supposed unity form by all kinds of phonetic tricks and dodges.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

"I'm going to fix that before I go to bed—we've got to coax him out on some excuse.
— from Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford

When the crows at length found him they chased him out of sight, either to chastise him, or, as I am inclined now to think, each one sought to catch him for the privilege of being the next to hide.
— from Ways of Wood Folk by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Here I had to correct an error, [357] which naturally was rooted in the very groundwork of the play; there perhaps to sacrifice a beauty to the limits of the stage, the humour of the pit, the stupidity of the gallery, or some such sorrowful convention; and I need not tell you, that as in nature, so on the stage, an idea, an emotion, can have only one suitable expression, one proper tone.
— from The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Thomas Carlyle