In June 1761, Colonel Grant with an army of 2,600 men, including a number of Chickasaw and almost every remaining warrior of the Catawba, 89 set out from Fort Prince George.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Elsie really was beginning to think that there was something about her quite different from ordinary people, but she was not sure that she liked her any better for that.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

He walked off carelessly to give himself a good run, and when he faced about there was some dignitary, with two spearmen in attendance, close at his elbow ready with a question.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

In the hardest working part of Coketown; in the innermost fortifications of that ugly citadel, where Nature was as strongly bricked out as killing airs and gases were bricked in; at the heart of the labyrinth of narrow courts upon courts, and close streets upon streets, which had come into existence piecemeal, every piece in a violent hurry for some one man’s purpose, and the whole an unnatural family, shouldering, and trampling, and pressing one another to death; in the last close nook of this great exhausted receiver, where the chimneys, for want of air to make a draught, were built in an immense variety of stunted and crooked shapes, as though every house put out a sign of the kind of people who might be expected to be born in it; among the multitude of Coketown, generically called ‘the Hands,’—a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs—lived a certain Stephen Blackpool, forty years of age.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput , Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag ), and Laputa , I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their being, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with conviction.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Ni ĉiuj estas reprezentataj , we are all (all of us are) represented .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

But the holy precincts of the Vatican, and the apostolic churches, could receive a very small proportion of the Roman people; many thousand warriors, more especially of the Huns, who served under the standard of Alaric, were strangers to the name, or at least to the faith, of Christ; and we may suspect, without any breach of charity or candor, that in the hour of savage license, when every passion was inflamed, and every restraint was removed, the precepts of the Gospel seldom influenced the behavior of the Gothic Christians.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The very first paragraph upon which Mr. Bumble's eye rested, was the following advertisement.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

For well does the world of evil realize what a strong force of opponents to their dark deeds is found in this great Christian organization.
— from The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Grace Livingston Hill

It would be impossible to state adequately the evil results which have flowed from this dualism of mind and body, much less to exaggerate them.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural): total: 21.03 cu km/yr (9%/59%/32%) per capita: 2,082 cu m/yr (2001) Environment - current issues: the upgrading of Hungary's standards in waste management, energy efficiency, and air, soil, and water pollution to meet EU requirements will require large investments Environment - international agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping,
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

She only told me in the impulsive way of one longing to give voice to thoughts long carefully concealed, of her yearning to be closer to the father whom she loved; more en rapport with him; more in his confidence; closer within the circle of his sympathies.
— from The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker

Unemployment estimates range widely from 20 to 60 percent.
— from The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)

"But it shakes as if it was going over," Sidney persisted, and Captain Eph replied with a laugh: "This 'ere tremble ain't anything compared with what I have felt, an' it'll be worse as the sea gets wilder, for—" The old keeper did not finish his remark, for at that moment Mr. Peters' head appeared through the trap door, as he said sharply: "It strikes me that a man of your age, Cap'n Eph, could be in better
— from The Light Keepers: A Story of the United States Light-house Service by James Otis

"True enough," replied Wilton, a little absently.
— from Ralph Wilton's weird by Mrs. Alexander

That evening Randal walked home with Egerton, and intimated his surprise that the minister had declined what seemed to him a good occasion for one of those brief, weighty replies by which Audley was chiefly distin
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 71, No. 438, April 1852 by Various

Notwithstanding the late devastation [fire of 1776], there are still many elegant edifices remaining, which would reflect credit on any metropolis in Europe."
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

It included the entire region which lies between the Sierra de Tandil and the lower Salado, where the village of Tandil had been established in 1823.
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis