Of late petitions and telegrams have been received from the military and civil officials, merchants, scholars, etc., containing similar demands.
— from The Fight for the Republic in China by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

Taking a chance on missing some emergency call, he hurried over to the village and interviewed, through the persuasive interpretation of sundry drinks, an aged and bearded wreck whose languid and chipped accents spoke of a life originally far alien to the habitudes of the Sick Coyote where he was fatalistically awaiting his final attack of delirium tremens.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Dearborn submitted a plan of campaign, recommending that the main army advance by way of Lake Champlain upon Montreal, while three corps of militia should enter Canada from Detroit, Niagara and Sackett's Harbour.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander