Alaska has furnished a fertile field for unscrupulous schemers to enrich themselves at the expense of credulous investors.
— from The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) by Lanier McKee
I'll go right an' fix up somethin' to eat, though goodness knows, I'm not hungry."
— from The Panchronicon by Harold Steele MacKaye
El vostro compagno vendra fora ò colla cariola à portar qualche cosa, ò colla falce à tagliar il grano, ò colla pipa a fumar, e si ben, che la scena fosse una sala, tanto e tanto, se vien a far da contadini ò da marinari.
— from A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini
“We closed early yesterday, and folk ull be vexed if they find us shut this evenun too.”
— from The Four Roads by Sheila Kaye-Smith
In the following place Fairfax uses spring to express the "salvatichi soggiorni," i. e. selva of his original:
— from Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
By now they must have ceased looking for us, supposing they ever thought us anything but drowned.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy
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