“He is heading straight to leeward, sir,” cried Stubb, “right away from us; cannot have seen the ship yet.”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Turning fiercely upon Count Horn, she uttered a volley of reproaches upon his share in the transaction.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley

She was a contrast to them, with her fair Underwood complexion, her short plump Vanderkist figure, and the mourning she still wore for the fatherly Uncle Grinstead; while the Merrifield party were all in different shades of the brunette, and wore bright spring raiment.
— from The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He looked down, carefully surveyed the artificial casing of his extremities, and decided to hail the first unoccupied coupé he should meet.
— from True, and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop

The grant in 1621 of Nova Scotia, by James the First, is bounded on the north by the river St. Lawrence, though Cartier had more than eighty-five years before discovered the mouth of that river and ascended it as high up as the present site of Montreal, and the French under Champlain had several years before 1621 been settled at Quebec.
— from The Oregon Question by Albert Gallatin

Thus, when Drake fell upon Cadiz, his sailors regarded the huge galleys opposed to them as mere "great bugges." BUGALILO.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth