I remained here most of the day in my maqueira, but in the afternoon some fish were brought in, and finding among them a couple of new species, I set to work figuring them, determined to let no opportunity pass of increasing my collections.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

161 “Come on, Nux,” said I, scrambling to my feet, “we must get that gold before Daggett and his gang come back.”
— from Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In spite of their watchfulness, a party of about 700 Maráthás under cover of night succeeded in scaling the walls and entering the city.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

To return to the bearing of moral conceptions on "Natural Selection," it seems that, from the reasons given in this chapter, we may safely affirm—1.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

Tha's whut I'm countin' on now, suh," I says; "tha's whar'in lays our maindest dependince.
— from J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Again, an engineer of celebrity once nearly succeeded in smuggling through Parliament, in the bill for a proposed railway, a clause extending the limits of deviation, to several miles on each side of the line, {72} throughout a certain district—the usual limits being but five chains on each side; and the attempt is accounted for by the fact, that this engineer possessed mines in this district.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer