"I brought a gun along," returned Dave, exhibiting the weapon; "I thought it was a bear scare."
— from Dave Porter At Bear Camp; Or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake by Edward Stratemeyer

Such a device should give out a wave that can be detected, if we get a receiver delicate enough and operating on the right wave length."
— from The Solar Magnet by S. P. (Sterner St. Paul) Meek

Having commissioned Diego de Arana as commander and Pedro Gutierrez and Roderigo de Escoveda to act as his lieutenants of the fort and its thirty-nine men, Columbus now embarked, but not before he had addressed all sorts of good advice to those he was to leave behind,—advice that did no good, if the subsequent events are clearly divined.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

Had Professor Gowell's successor been a practical poultryman, it is my candid opinion that the public would have been given a radically different explanation of the results.
— from The Dollar Hen by Milo Hastings

There were squabbles and fights in which one or two of the Spaniards were killed; and Pedro Gutierrez and Rodrigo de Escovedo, whom Columbus had appointed as lieutenants to Arana, headed a faction of revolt against his authority, and took themselves off with nine other Spaniards and a great number of women.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Complete by Filson Young

"In the van came the oxen destined for sacrifice, led by men of rustic guise and rude demeanour, each clad in a white tunic closely girt about him, with the right arm bare to the shoulder, and brandishing a double-headed axe.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various

The latter, therefore, fought with the utmost vehemence, not in regular battle array, after the German fashion, but with their storming divisions, furious attacks, feigned retreats, and renewed onslaughts, their arrows and javelins descending every time like a hail-storm, they broke through the serried ranks of the Germans and rode down every thing that was in their way.
— from The story of Hungary by Ármin Vámbéry

He next cut two forked poles and drove 'em in de ground and rested de ends of de hollow log in dese forks.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration