Well, I do understand, sir, and I appreciate that you were under a great deal of pressure at that time, and I want to try and get at the actual facts, and that is why we asked you to come back to testify again, because we wanted to know basically whether or not the man that you drove in the cab got off in the 500 block or the 700 block.
— from Warren Commission (06 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

We are told of his deeds of prowess against the Turks at Lepanto, at Tunis against the Moor.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

Mrs. Holt rode a very fine horse, which the Indians were desirous of possessing, and they therefore attacked her in the hope of dismounting her.
— from The Fort Dearborn Massacre Written in 1814 by Lieutenant Linai T. Helm, One of the Survivors, with Letters and Narratives of Contemporary Interest by Linai T. (Linai Taliaferro) Helm

We must have visited in all a dozen gambling joints, two or three midnight restaurants, half a dozen opium places and two theaters; and the only thing that could be remotely constructed into disrespect was the amazement on one drunken white face on the street that a white woman could be going through Chinatown with a Chinaman.
— from The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. Laut

He is aware too that languages exist in various degrees of perfection, and that the analysis of them can only be carried to a certain point.
— from Cratylus by Plato

They had no time to delay or prepare any treacherous tricks, and I got the ‘drop’ on the whole outfit, as they say out West.
— from The Boys of '98 by James Otis

The habitual intoxication of the Cumberland House Crees has induced such a disregard of personal appearance that they are squalid and dirty in the extreme; hence a minute description of their clothing would be by no means interesting.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

Hence at the approach of menstruation it is the duty of parents and teachers to assist the girl with their advice.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

You rail against scenery, but what could belong more to the order of things extraneous to what you perhaps a little priggishly call the delicacy of personal art than the arrangement you are speaking of? Dorriforth.
— from Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James