After having landed, they proceeded to search the country, parties going in different directions among the woods and vines.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Then Alfred laughed out suddenly, Like thunder in the spring, Till shook aloud the lintel-beams, And the squirrels stirred in dusty dreams, And the startled birds went up in streams, For the laughter of the King.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Twelve hunters turned out this morning in different directions agreeably to the order of last evening.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

[Clark, May 18, 1806] Sunday 18th May 1806 Cloudy morning 12 hunters turned out this morning in different directions agreeably to the order of yesterday.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

" "As if ghos'es 'ud want to be believed in by anybody so ignirant!" said Mr. Macey, in deep disgust at the farrier's crass incompetence to apprehend the conditions of ghostly phenomena.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Nay I do declare, according to Information from the Indians themselves, that there are to this day far greater Quantities of Gold kept hid and concealed than ever were yet detected or brought to light, which by means of the Spanish Injustice and Cruelty, they would not then, nor ever will discover so long as they are so barbarously treated, but will rather chose to dye with the Herd.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

[Lat][Terence]; "have I not in my time heard lions roar" [Taming of the Shrew]; "I dare do all that may become a man"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Muqaddasi, writing in the year A.D. 985, describes ‘Ain al-Tamr as a little castle; [13] Yâqût, who mentions the name Shefâthâ as part of ‘Ain al-Tamr, praises its dry dates above those of other towns, [14] and to this day they maintain that honourable pre-eminence.
— from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

“I dare do all that is commanded me; and for this peasant garb, it enabled me, unperceived, to enter this domain, where, living on the berries of the trees, and roots from the earth, have I long waited to meet thee thus.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

"I dare do anything that is right," replied Toombs.
— from Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage by Pleasant A. Stovall

This attack is delivered directly against the front of the enemy.
— from The Plattsburg Manual: A Handbook for Military Training by E. B. (Enoch Barton) Garey

He bowed his head for a moment in deep dejection, and then, shrugging his shoulders, he smiled into her stern eyes a little wistfully.
— from Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Nell Speed

" The duchy of Urbino, which, according to the preceding extract, was the last refuge of the silk trade, had then fallen into deep decay, and the corn commerce of La Marca was clogged by export dues and injudicious restrictions.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

He was still on the Annie Curtis , but she was in dry dock, and therefore he was, he said, having a bit of a spree ashore.
— from As We Forgive Them by William Le Queux