We find, however, an important variante in the history of Corea; it is stated there that in 1290, Hatan and his son Lao-ti were carrying fire and slaughter to Corea, and devastated that country; they slew the inhabitants and fed on human flesh.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

We have all had such experiences—we live along, thinking of things after a certain fashion, and suddenly there comes a day when everything seems changed.
— from Calvert of Strathore by Abbe Carter Goodloe

Orders were therefore sent to Colonel Wood to make an attack on the Zulu flank, and so to create a diversion in favour of the relieving column.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

Because they were compelled to wait the granting of another rate, whilst hundreds of our poor were summoned to appear before the Magistrates in order that they might be legally excused, or payment enforced, before another rate could be made; because such as this “Observer” would not compound for the payment of their rates, and, without the introduction of the Rating-of-Tenements’ Act, this must have been done at the close of every rate,—a fact alone sufficient to counterbalance any disadvantages which from its introduction [Pg 185] may arise, and which will ultimately be as great a benefit to the Landlord as to the poor Tenants themselves.
— from The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc. by C. F. G. Clark

If a rogue elephant, a man-eating tiger or a nasty leopard became a public nuisance, it was a case for a sahib to come and doctor it with a .577 double-barreled express rifle, worth $150 or more; and the sahibs had shooting galore.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

Here was a small vessel, of less than a hundred tons in measurement, with a crew of twelve men, and armed with three guns, that was not only deemed to be sufficient but which was in fact amply sufficient to change a dynasty among a people who counted their hosts in thousands.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

They get coal out of me for fur, and sell the coal at double my price; they kill seals and dress the skins aboard; kill fish and salt 'em aboard.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault