She is continually tortured for her iron, her timber, stone, fire, corn, and is even much more subservient to our luxuries than to our mere support.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

I had never seen him pray before, or make that pious sign; he did it so simply, with such child-like faith, I could not help smiling pleasurably as I watched; his eyes met my smile; he just stretched out his kind hand, saying, "Donnez-moi la main!
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

" "You will excuse me, Mr. Sholto," said Miss Morstan, "but I am here at your request to learn something which you desire to tell me.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

the river is still rising and excessively muddy more so I think than I ever saw it.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

SYN: Exhalation, emanation, malaria, miasma, stink.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

This announcement, instead of embarrassing Mrs. Miller, seemed to relieve her.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

Enough of woes already have I known; Enough my master's sorrows and my own.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

"Eh! Miss Mary," she said, "it may put him all out of humor when I tell him that."
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

See Delawares; Levels of Greenbriar, the gathering-place of Lewis' army, I; Lewis, General Andrew, in command of frontiersmen in Lord Dunmore's army, I; the force under his command; divides his army into three divisions; leaves his worst troops to garrison small forts; reaches the Kanawha River; camps at Point Pleasant at the mouth of the Kanawha; prepares to obey Lord Dunmore's orders; attacked by Indians; despatches Col. Field to the front; fortifies his camp; battle of the Great Kanawha; repulses the Indians; leaves his sick and wounded in camp and marches to join Lord; Dunmore; served creditably in the Revolution; Lewis Colonel Charles, a brother of General Lewis, I; commands Augusta troops; marches with the bulk of Gen. Lewis' army; ordered to advance; mortally wounded; Lexington how named I; Logan an Iroquois of note, I; a friend of the whites; murder of his kinsfolk; his revenge; letter to Cresap; refuses to attend a council; his eloquent speech; perishes in a drunken brawl; evidence of the authenticity of his speech; intercedes successfully for Kenton II; Logan, Benjamin leads a party to Kentucky, I; his character; his bravery II; goes to the Holston for powder and lead; surprised by Indians; second in command; missing at the fight at Piqua; appointed colonel; capture of his family by the savages and their rescue; raises the whole force of Lincoln; buries the dead after the battle of the Blue Licks; with Clark in the Miami country; destroys stores of British traders; Logan's Station, fort built at, I; attacked by Indians, II; Long Hunters, the, why so called, I; Long Knives, designation given Virginians by the Indians, I; extension of the term, I; Long Run, Squire Boon defeated at, II Lord Dunmore's War, begun by the Indians, I; Cresap's reprisals; murder of Logan's kinsfolk; wrath of the Indians; the frontier ravaged by Indians; panic on the border; Logan's revenge; counterstrokes of backwoodsmen; burn a Shawnee village; the opening act of the drama that was closed at Yorktown; Lorimer surprises and captures Boon, II; Loughry, annihilation of his party, II; Louisiana, purchase of, I; ceded by France to Spain Louisville, founded by Clark, II; Lulbegrud Creek, origin of name, I; McAfee brothers, the, incident in their career, I; visit Kentucky; meet Cornstalk and the Shawnees; visit Big Bone Lick; their sufferings on their homeward journey; reach Powell's Valley; meet Boon there; return to Kentucky; build a stockade, II; attacked by Indians; narrow individual escapes; relieved by McGarry McConnell, names his hut Lexington, I; captured near Lexington, II; slays his captors and escapes McCulloch, Major Samuel, a leading man on the border, II; escape from the Indians McDowell, Col., asks the Holston men for help, II; beaten by Ferguson; goes to Gates' army McGarry, reaches Kentucky, I; his character; surprised by Indians, II; relieves McAfee's Station; his insubordination; serves under Col. Todd McGillivray, Alexander, chief of the Creek nation, I; his birth; education; claimed by the Creeks; his chieftainship; aids the British, I; McGillivray, Lachlan, his career; marriage; children; influence over the savages McKee, a tory leader, II; a fairly good commander; defeated by Clark; a letter to De Peyster; Maine, settlers of, confined to the sea-coast, I; Mansker, Kasper, leads a party of hunters down the Cumberland River, I; returns overland to Georgia; returns to Tennessee; skill as a marksman and woodsman; his "Nancy,"; outwits an Indian; adventure with Indians; becomes a Methodist; hunts in the Cumberland country, II Marshall, Thomas, surveyor of Fayette County, II; Martin, Major Joseph, joins Sevier's troops, II; disperses the Indians; tries to speculate in Cherokee lands; sample Indian "talk" to; Methodism, a power after the Revolution, II Miamis, the, l
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

“Mr. Stoddard, you exaggerate my merits,” said Tom modestly.
— from Tom Temple's Career by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

For example, in a New England mill manned solely by South Italians only one out of fifteen of the extra hands taken on during the "rush" season shows sufficient aptitude to be worth keeping.
— from The Old World in the New The Significance of Past and Present Immigration to the American People by Edward Alsworth Ross

“He was brought in a private carriage about six o’clock in the evening, my men say.
— from In White Raiment by William Le Queux