At the junction of the Ohio the Mississippi's depth is eighty-seven feet; the depth increases gradually, reaching one hundred and twenty-nine just above the mouth.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Therefore you are just cattle, and there is no difficulty in getting rid of you....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[24] A man so fertile in expedients would not find much difficulty in getting rid of Ghālib.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

for the value of one quarter dollar I got rid of this dishonest girl for ever; rather than pay me, she never entered the house again.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I must tell you I’ve been sitting with him in the restaurant close by, where he looked me up and I had great difficulty in getting rid of him.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But the chemist’s shop was full of people; he had the greatest difficulty in getting rid of Monsieur Tuvache, who feared his spouse would get inflammation of the lungs, because she was in the habit of spitting on the ashes; then of Monsieur Binet, who sometimes experienced sudden attacks of great hunger; and of Madame Caron, who suffered from tinglings; of Lheureux, who had vertigo; of Lestiboudois, who had rheumatism; and of Madame Lefrancois, who had heartburn.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The fast colours lose none of their beauty in the process nor does it affect the quality of the cotton; any excess of colouring matter which the fibres of the cotton may have absorbed in the process of dyeing is got rid of by this means.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

My partner was Agatha, who had great difficulty in getting rid of Lord Percy, though she told him that she was fully engaged.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the morning I gave her her fee of twenty guineas and a handsome ring as a mark of my peculiar friendship, and we spent the day in getting ready our habits for the ride of the day following.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In England, similar differences occasionally exist when an Evangelical wife has allied herself with a husband of a different quality; but in general this source at least of dissension is got rid of, by reducing the minds of women to such a nullity, that they have no opinions but those of Mrs. Grundy, or those which the husband tells them to have.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Two being now defunct, only one remains; but there is some difficulty in getting rid of Doria , for he is (as is always the case when a stage felo-de-se impends) unprovided with a weapon.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, by Various

I prefer the little girls and boys that live in that nice land, that come as you call them, fair or dark, in green ribbons or blue.
— from Kate Greenaway by M. H. (Marion Harry) Spielmann

Our beasts were in a very fair condition, all things considered, but we had great difficulty in getting rid of them.
— from Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert

It may [116] have been remarked in the stories of murders by Jews, that they were represented as finding great difficulty in getting rid of the dead bodies.
— from Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

It's lucky enough that what she determines is generally right, otherwise the world would soon be in confusion."
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"I have been hard at work, for the last two days, in getting rid of the dyes with which I have been coloured, ever since I was an infant."
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

If we are rich enough to afford the sacrifice, the old-fashioned dress is got rid of; if not, we must be content to appear in a fashion that has long been superseded; and we look as if we had come out of the tombs, or as if one of our ancestors had stepped out of her picture frame, and again walked the earth.
— from Dress as a Fine Art, with Suggestions on Children's Dress by Mary P. (Mary Philadelphia) Merrifield

All you have to do is get rid of the second "without."
— from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

KATHARINE HOOKER OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA THESE NOVELS ARE DEDICATED IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF A KIND
— from The Morgesons: A Novel by Elizabeth Stoddard