The Clatsops, Chinnooks, Killamucks &c. are very loquacious and inquisitive; they possess good memories and have repeated to us the names capasities of the vessels &c of many traders and others who have visited the mouth of this river; they are generally low in stature, proportionably small, reather lighter complected and much more illy formed than the Indians of the Missouri and those of our frontier; they are generally cheerfull but never gay.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The Clatsops proceeded on with their lodes—The Clatsops, Chin nooks Kil a mox &c. are verry loquacious and inquisitive; they possess good memories and have repeeted to us the names capasities of the Vessels &c of maney traders and others who have visited the mouth of this river; they are generally low in Statue, proportionably Small, reather lighter complected and much more illy formed than the Indians of the Missouri and those of our fronteers; they are generally Chearfull but never gay.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Natheles, there is good land in some place, but it is pure little, as men say.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Mugaay (magaay) giyud ang dalag yayúngan, A load gets lighter if several people carry it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There are many by-laws whose workings we do not understand; but the great, general law is so plain, that wayfaring folk, though fools, need not err therein.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

To be sure, when the spring rains came, the roof of turf, upon which the grass began to grow, leaked in several places; but we spread our canvas tent over it, weighted it down with stones at the corners, and got along finely.
— from The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan

As men and horses were moving amid the dust she supposed that they were cutting prairie hay, which grows longer in such places than it does upon the levels.
— from Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss

London, Printed for Philemon Stephens, at the guilded Lyon in St. Pauls Churchyard, 1661.
— from Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton by Izaak Walton

The effect of these great fires, which were generally lighted in some part of the main avenue, was exceedingly grand.
— from The Crystal Palace: Its Architectural History and Constructive Marvels by Fowler, Charles, Jr.