The women thus have plenty to do, for every other day at least they have to go to the field, often a mile or two distant, to fetch the root, and every day to grate, prepare, and bake the bread; as it forms by far the greater part of their food, and they often pass days without eating anything else, especially when the men are engaged in clearing the forest.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

N. In the very mouth of the harbour there are two very low points, lying N. by E. and S. by W. from each other, distant a league and half.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Mrs. Orby Frimmely exclaims, “Oh do,” and laughs.
— from Happy-Thought Hall by F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand

Although the Indians continue to style the President of the United States as their Great Father, yet, in this report, the Indian feeling which really exists towards the American people is honestly avowed; it says in its preamble— “As yet no community of feeling, except of deep and lasting hatred to the white man, and particularly to the Anglo-Americans , exists among them, and, unless they coalesce, no serious difficulty need be apprehended from them.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

As yet, no community of feeling except of deep and lasting hatred to the white man, and more particularly to the Anglo-Americans, exists among them; and, unless they coalesce, no serious difficulty need be apprehended from them.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

The utter bliss of being alone, and having the cottage free from the masked presence for even one day acted like a balm on Vashti.
— from Beggars on Horseback by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

To impress us with a just sense of the exceeding evil of this thing the Spirit employs every variety of figure expressive of deformity and loathsomeness.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

For every other day, at least, The wind blows like the—— deuce.
— from Poems by Clara A. Merrill