The mountains of captured or abandoned enemy stores indicated that either Operation PEGASUS had caught the NVA completely flat-footed or the remnants of the two enemy divisions were in no shape to cart off their equipment and supplies.
— from The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore

As Woolens is worth easily double what it now stands at, they can't lose.
— from The Cost by David Graham Phillips

Five months elapsed, during which I neither saw nor much desired to see Mrs. Abel.
— from Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

He washed all his body euery day, were it neuer so cold.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

Probably the plant would be commoner than it is about populous Eastern districts were it not so much sought by herb-gatherers for use as a tonic medicine.
— from Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan

Among such people, my Lord, it is not possible that this engaging damsel, who is now so youthful and innocent, could resist the evil influence of the principles that prevail in her family.
— from Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

Probably the plant would be commoner than it is about populous Eastern districts were it not so much sought after as a tonic medicine.
— from Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Neltje Blanchan

So Herr Adler became a household word in that nursery, and in future, if Squib caught himself in the act of being slovenly, selfish, disobedient, or wasteful, he would pull himself up shortly on remembering how he had been taught always to give his best, always to try after the highest, to make his life a beautiful thing, and to find everything round him beautiful, as no one can ever do who is not struggling with his faults, and seeking to follow in the footsteps of One who pleased not Himself.
— from Squib and His Friends by Evelyn Everett-Green

It would, however, be hardly worth our while to show the fallacy of this very common etymological deduction, were it not sometimes made the ground of very false ideas.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various