When, at low spring tides, the coral reef is uncovered, small rock-cod, slim eels, parrot-fish, perch, soles, the lovely blue-spotted sting-ray, catfish, flathead, etc., are poked out unceremoniously with spears or sharp-pointed sticks from labyrinthine mazes, or from the concealment afforded by the flabby folds and fringes of the skeleton-less coral (ALCYONARIA), or from among the weeds and stones—a kind of additional sense leading the black to the discovery of fish in places that a white man would never dream of investigating.
— from Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

Asa You see, as nigh as we could reckon it up, she had gone and got married again his will, and that made him mad, and well, he was a queer kind of a rusty fusty old coon, and it appeared that he got older, and rustier, and fustier and coonier every fall, you see it always took him in the fall, it was too much for him.
— from Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor

Parry, C.C. Report in United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, vol.i.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

The one consolation rendered imperative under such circumstances by poetic justice is a continual carolling from the suddenly agitated winch.
— from Lines in Pleasant Places: Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by William Senior

When night comes, and two or three hundred miles of road have been covered, the balance of the funds is carefully locked up in the safe on board, the car run in upon some convenient siding, and the engine housed for a wiping and a thorough preparation for the next day's run.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke

"Any-one who likes can reckon it up," said Weise.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

The rigid tongue we see is effect, and to tinker with the effect while the cause remains is unnecessarily stupid.
— from The Head Voice and Other Problems: Practical Talks on Singing by D. A. (David Alva) Clippinger

At first the boys from the village would follow and perhaps imitate these naval manœuvres—in the hope, never fulfilled, of catching “Ranter Israel” using some nautical language, such as old Pirate Wilkes had made but too familiar to their ears.
— from The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The venerable Abul Casim, governor of the city, represented its unhappy state: “Our granaries are nearly exhausted, and no further supplies are to be expected.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving