I saw that I was just another Robinson Crusoe cast away on an uninhabited island, with no society but some more or less tame animals, and if I wanted to make life bearable I must do as he did—invent, contrive, create, reorganize things; set brain and hand to work, and keep them busy.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Gifford Pinchot David R. Porter George D. Porter Perry Edwards Powell Frederic B. Pratt George D. Pratt Frank Presbrey G. Barrett Rich, Jr. Jacob A. Riis Clarence C. Robinson Edgar M. Robinson Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Lincoln E. Rowley Oliver J. Sands Dr. D. A. Sargent Henry B. Sawyer Mortimer L. Schiff Charles Scribner George L. Sehon Rear Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge Jefferson Seligman Jesse Seligman Ernest Thompson Seton Samuel Shuman Rear Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee William F. Slocum Fred.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

“That’s Captain Joe, all right,” cried Case.
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph by Harry Gordon

[290] Paul-Louis Courier, Les Pastorales de Longus ou Daphnis et Chloé , traduction de Messire Jacques Amyot revue, corrigée, complétée et de nouveau refaite in grande partie, Paris, 1925, Preface , p. xxii.
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

At Ajaccio he joined a Radical Club called the Patriotic Society, and wrote and printed a “Letter” to Buttafuoco, one of the most hated men in Corsica, who, since the death of Napoleon’s father, had represented the nobility of the island at Versailles.
— from The Story of Napoleon by Harold Wheeler

[iv] Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe Copyright, 1922 By Harper & Brothers Printed in the U.S.A.
— from Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe by David Cory

Look at the Bishops of Jerusalem, Antioch, Rome, Constantinople, &c., striving for the mastery; till finally the Bishop of Rome succeeded, trampling under foot all others, and then rearing a mighty fabric, and taking his seat in the temple of God, showing himself that he was God.
— from The Scriptures Able to Make Us Wise Unto Salvation Or the Bible a Sufficient Creed by F. H. (Francis H.) Berick

Dandy Jim again registers consternation, coughs feebly, and rolls his eyes round appealingly, as if wondering whether the world is to sit, without heart, and watch a poor defenseless horse being slain.
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson

It was founded in 1882 by T. J. and Rollin C. Cooper, brothers who, flush with the profits of successful mining ventures in Colorado, arrived in this vicinity in 1880, and became bonanza farmers.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

Of course, I love little boys, too, you understand, because I've got one of them, but little girls—mine—I used to sew for them and I have always wanted another little girl and I always made over little girls more so than I did little boys, that that little girl, as well as I remember, she had straight hair and she had little bangs in the front and she was just a real cute child, but I would really like to meet with them again and I would like for her to tell me that she went in that store.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

In my judgment a railroad certainly cannot be safely made over Chat Moss without going to the bottom page 168
— from Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

Finally, when the municipal officers, judges, and royal commissioner commence proceedings against the assassins, they find themselves in such great danger that they are obliged to resign or to run away.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine