It is really strange to one who stands by, a calm unconcerned spectator, to observe men hurried on by the violence of faction to their own certain destruction, and to behold them so entirely blinded by party spirit as not to see that danger which stares them so openly in the face, that a child could scarcely fail to detect it.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

"I do believe you want to cut up some trick on me, because I stole your part, or it seems to you I did, and yet, you rather like me, and hate to do it, after all."
— from Patty Blossom by Carolyn Wells

You can come up," shouted the old man in return.
— from Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell Bouton

I should be able to move about then; as the servant of a European I should run less risk of being suspected either by Russians or Chinese than if I were a masterless man; and I might—the chance is small, but still it is a chance—I might come upon some trace of my father if attached to a foreign correspondent, whose duties will surely take him from place to place."
— from Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

The mansion that's been closed up since the old man died.
— from And Then the Town Took Off by Richard Wilson

On the lower deck I suddenly came upon some twenty or more barefooted and half-clothed men and women lying in a long row, side by side, stretched out on mattresses placed on the deck.
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow