The very sight of him almost made us laugh in spite of ourselves; for his shaven pate was thrust out of a scarlet robe, and around his neck he had tucked a long fringed napkin with a broad purple stripe running down the middle of it.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

We continued to beat down the channel, which had an average width of over half a mile, until late in the evening, when we came to anchor in eleven feet of water.
— from Journals of Australian Explorations by Francis Thomas Gregory

But, in truth, narratives are valuable just in so far as it is presumed that they place us in direct contact with the thing that happened and make us live it again, drawing it forth from the obscure depth of the memories that the human race bears with it.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

At night we landed upon its banks, and had a most uncomfortable lodging, it being a perfect swamp; and we had nothing to cover us, though it rained very hard.
— from Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager With an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia from the year 1740 till their arrival in England 1746 by John Byron

The heartiest and most unaffected laughter I have ever heard proceeded from the throats of Dayaks and Negritos.
— from Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by H. Wilfrid Walker