I could not have believed in such negligence and folly had I not had a long experience of Egyptian troops, whether brown or black.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

Our feelings on quitting the fort where we had formerly enjoyed much comfort, if not happiness, and latterly experienced a degree of misery scarcely to be paralleled, may be more easily conceived than described.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

His mother never fussed that way over her babies, and is not he a living example of the virtue of neglect?"
— from Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern by Fanny Fern