It is this affectation of speech and manner which makes Frenchmen disagreeable and repulsive to other nations on first acquaintance.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pray glance at some of these churches and their embellishments, and see whether the Government is doing a righteous thing or not.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

We reached her home without difficulty and remained there over night.
— from Recollections of a Pioneer by J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson

To be sure there ought not to be more; and, if we except the Mutes, concerning whom there's no Occasion to lay down any Rule, there ought not, perhaps, to be so many.
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

And here it is, for the sake of discipline and respect to officers not always gentlemen, the punishment of a man who was guilty of manhood.
— from The People of the Abyss by Jack London

We owed all this attention—which was most seasonable, as I was still suffering from the effects of a malarious fever contracted in Australia—to Messrs. Cook and Son, who had been advised of my coming, and here I will say that in Egypt and Syria the name of “Cook” is the talisman which solves all difficulties and robs travelling of nearly all its inconveniences.
— from Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt by Tangye, Richard, Sir

Large flocks are seen every day rising from the river, and taking a high position, flying out of sight, and apparently moving in a circuit to a considerable distance, again returning to or near the same place, during the last two or three weeks of their stay.
— from American Scenery, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Under a decent freedom of international choice and action, of sale and delivery, only those things are ever exported, for the procuring of which a nation possesses decided advantages relatively to other nations, and relatively to its own advantages in producing directly what is received in return; and hence, the return cargoes, no matter what they have cost their original producers, are purchased by this nation as cheaply as if they had been produced by its own most advantageously expended Effort.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry

twenty yards from the gate; although he had not appeared ill when I stroked his nose on the previous evening; but when I saw him lying there dead, and remembered the old native's words, it seemed to me as marvellous and inexplicable that a horse should act in that way, as if some wild creature--a rhea, a fawn, or dolichotes--had come to exhale his last breath at the gates of his enemy and constant persecutor, man.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson