Here Mr. Brown, always "on hand," had got everything ready, so that we had only to hook on the gig and hoist it up, when the order was given to loose the sails.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

'Oh, the sittivation 'll be good enough,' retorted Sponge, thinking that, groom-like, Leather was grumbling because he hadn't got the best stables.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

The people had for the most part been brought under the church’s influence by the power of arms, and consequently to a great extent remained strangers to her true spirit.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The wood suggested Brindában, every hill looked like Govardhan, every river seemed to Him a Jamuna.
— from Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi

With about fifty members apiece, the Communist and the Radić parties gave expression, roughly speaking, to the discontent produced by the unsettled conditions—unavoidable and avoidable—of the new State's first two years.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

Mr. H. W. Thornton , the new American manager of the Great Eastern Railway, says that his ideal is to satisfy the public.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 by Various

“Very well, now listen; you are to get everything ready so that it will be nothing but ’a touch and a go,’ as soon as I say the word, understand?
— from The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

the fellow who is running that yacht has a lot of nerve; he's got every rag stretched that's aboard."
— from An Annapolis First Classman by Edward L. (Edward Latimer) Beach

I have heard g entlemen recently say t h a t we must get five million men ready.
— from Captain Lucy in France by Aline Havard