Our men are now very much engaged in dressing Elk and Deer skins for mockersons and cloathing.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

By no means!’ ‘You may remember that the day I arrived in London, and found the house to which I drove, empty and deserted, I was directed by some of the neighbours to you, and waited upon you without stopping for rest or refreshment?’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

T HIS Court having taken into their Consideration the great Service lately done to this Province in particular, as well as to all other his Majesty’s good Subjects in general, by Captain Peter Solgard, Commander of his Majesty’s Ship the Greyhound, the Station Ship of the Province, who lately in a Cruize upon this Coast, in due Execution and Discharge of his Duty, upon Intelligence given him, sought for, pursued and engaged two Pyrate Sloops, commanded by one Low, (a notorious and inhumane Pyrate,) one of which Sloops he took, after a resolute Resistance, and very much shattered the other, who by the Favour of the Night escaped.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

My disgust at a monastic life increases daily: Ennui and discontent are my constant Companions; and I will not conceal from you that the passion which I formerly felt for one so near being my Husband is not yet extinguished in my bosom.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Ah! it was easy when the world was young To keep one’s life free and inviolate, From our sad lips another song is rung, By our own hands our heads are desecrate, Wanderers in drear exile, and dispossessed Of what should be our own, we can but feed on wild unrest.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Pues, señor, es cosa hecha: Well sir, it is done: el alma del buen don Diego the soul of good Don Diego puede, a mi ver, con sosiego can, in my opinion, know reposar muy satisfecha.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

It was a system necessarily involving its own decay; for a while glutted with plenty, but failing with the supply, and ending in desolation, exile, and death.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Id. de el año de 1625 f. 34 4.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Un des plus agréables épisodes de ce voyage, c’est la rencontre que fait M. Catlin, dans un immense désert et au détour d’un bois, d’un trappeur Canadien qui sifflait entre ses lèvres
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

To continue any business relations with the Bank of the United States that may be avoided without a violation of the national faith after that institution has set at open defiance the conceded right of the Government to examine its affairs, after it has done all in its power to deride the public authority in other respects and to bring it into disrepute at home and abroad, after it has attempted to defeat the clearly expressed will of the people by turning against them the immense power intrusted to its hands and by involving a country otherwise peaceful, flourishing, and happy, in dissension, embarrassment, and distress, would make the nation itself a party to the degradation so sedulously prepared for its public agents and do much to destroy the confidence of man-kind in popular governments and to bring into contempt their authority and efficiency.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Andrew Jackson

Id. de el año de 1631 f. 228 10.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

The Italian 346 round tile is itself decoration enough, a deep and rich fluting, which all artists delight in; this, however, is fitted exclusively for low pitch of roofs.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin

"Speakin' of church; we went to de same church as de white folks did; only thing was we had to go in de evenin' atter de white folks.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

We could only gaze in drunken ecstasy and drink in it.
— from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain

Its decisions enable all departments and agencies of the US Government to use uniform names of geographic features.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

“Indeed I am, then, in deadly earnest,” answered Dick.
— from The Adventures of Dick Maitland: A Tale of Unknown Africa by Harry Collingwood