we found the Antelope extreemly shye and watchfull insomuch that we had been unable to get a shot at them; when at rest they generally seelect the most elivated point in the neighbourhood, and as they are watchfull and extreemly quick of sight and their sense of smelling very accute it is almost impossible to approach them within gunshot; in short they will frequently discover and flee from you at the distance of three miles.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“And has this man displayed a friendship for you, Albert?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There is an excellent opportunity now to show fair play to a body of citizens who have been working at a disadvantage and fighting for years for their just rights and for proper and adequate protection from the Government.
— from Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, conjointly with the Senate Committee on Patents, on H.R. 19853, to amend and consolidate the acts respecting copyright June 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1906. by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents

Such an expedition as this would be too dangerous and fatiguing for you younger ones, and this place seems perfectly safe.
— from Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

The great trouble with a lot of these fellows is that they're "made land," and if you dig down a few feet you strike ooze and booze under the layer of dollars that their daddies dumped in on top.
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

The physician was a great chemist and distiller, and for four years had been seeking the philosopher's stone, which was supposed to be the secret of making gold.
— from A Book of Golden Deeds by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Aria. Stay, let me consider first, you are a Stranger, inconstant too as Island Winds, and every day are fighting for your Mistresses, of which you’ve had at least four since I saw you first, which is not a whole day.
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Aphra Behn

Or hire a small-boat to get you out of the system and flag down a freighter for you.
— from Legacy by James H. Schmitz

Outside of our principal cities and towns the people are literally without school-houses, and the State ought to spend not less than a hundred thousand dollars annually for five years in providing suitable school-houses.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 9, September, 1887 by Various

"This person, sir, refused to do a favor for your daughter.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

It was no doubt hoped that the destruction of Awatobi would effectually root out the growing Christian influence, which it in fact did; and for fifty years afterward Tusayan successfully resisted all efforts to convert it.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

If I can do anything further for you, we will be happy to.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission