from hence they retreated about three miles up Jeffersons river and concealed themselves in the woods, the Minnetares pursued, attacked them, killed 4 men 4 women a number of boys, and mad prisoners of all the females and four boys, Sah-cah-gar-we-ah or Indian woman was one of the female prisoners taken at that time; tho I cannot discover that she shews any immotion of sorrow in recollecting this event, or of joy in being again restored to her native country; if she has enough to eat and a few trinkets to wear I beleive she would be perfectly content anywhere.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Having given this short Account of the Institution and Continuation of the Everlasting Club, I should here endeavour to say something of the Manners and Characters of its several Members, which I shall do according to the best Lights I have received in this Matter.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Barney Hainsfeather IF the excursion train to Peoria Had just been wrecked, I might have escaped with my life— Certainly I should have escaped this place.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

I went down to the dwelling of my brother in Maine, and there, roaming wildly over the country, I soon heard enough to show me that, notwithstanding all his large possessions, the Count d'Aubin was struggling vainly with the consequences of his own follies.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

“Ah, Comte Camus,” replied Choiseul, “I saw him early this evening, but I have not seen him since.”
— from The Presentation by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

There was no other way, but to cross, if she hoped ever to reach her journey's end….
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort

She refused them—No, doctor, said she, I will play my own cards: I shall have enough to do to play them well.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

No other person can inhabit St Helena except the two hermits, or perchance some sick person who may be left there on shore under the care of the hermits, for his help and recovery.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

“I'll help, but really with Archie and Steve and Charlie, I shall have enough to do.
— from Rose in Bloom A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" by Louisa May Alcott

But we cannot sympathize with the apparent satisfaction of Mr. Carlyle in seeing him engaged, two days after the execution, in marriage treaty for his son.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

Under other circumstances I should have enjoyed them, but every mile west was taking me away from all I held dear in the world, so no wonder my heart sank within me and that I loathed the savages, loathed the fat old king, and even the boy interpreter, although he was the only one with whom I could converse.
— from O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Gordon Stables

To use some drastically clear if somewhat hackneyed examples, the Eskimo do not eat coconuts nor do the Oceanians build snow-houses; where the horse does not occur it cannot be domesticated; in the Hopi country where watercourses are lacking navigation naturally did not develop.
— from Culture & Ethnology by Robert Harry Lowie