every Saw, Shields killed a deer and my man York killed a Buffalow Bull, as he informed me for his tongue and marrow bones.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

If our pleasures be interrupt, we can tolerate it: our bodies hurt, we can put it up and be reconciled: but touch our commodities, we are most impatient: fair becomes foul, the graces are turned to harpies, friendly salutations to bitter imprecations, mutual feastings to plotting villainies, minings and counterminings; good words to satires and invectives, we revile e contra , nought but his imperfections are in our eyes, he is a base knave, a devil, a monster, a caterpillar, a viper, a hog-rubber, &c. Desinit in piscem mulier formosa superne ; [4518] the scene is altered on a sudden, love is turned to hate, mirth to melancholy: so furiously are we most part bent, our affections fixed upon this object of commodity, and upon money, the desire of which in excess is covetousness: ambition tyranniseth over our souls, as [4519] I have shown, and in defect crucifies as much, as if a man by negligence, ill husbandry, improvidence, prodigality, waste and consume his goods and fortunes, beggary follows, and melancholy, he becomes an abject,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

When, therefore, the fair Scheherazade insisted upon marrying the king, and did actually marry him despite her father’s excellent advice not to do any thing of the kind—when she would and did marry him, I say, will I, nill I, it was with her beautiful black eyes as thoroughly open as the nature of the case would allow.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Ug maatrásu ta ug duha ka adlaw, dakù ang multa, There is a big fine if you are two days delinquent.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Lawigi ang kábaw arun daghan ang masabsab, Give the carabao more rope so that it can graze over a wide area.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

By these, I know that in India the tiger kills something over 800 persons every year, and that the government responds by killing about double as many tigers every year.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

——The act of killing and destroying a man, continued my father, raising his voice—and turning to my uncle Toby —you see, is glorious—and the weapons by which we do it are honourable——We march with them upon our shoulders——We strut with them by our sides——We gild them——We carve them——We in-lay them——We enrich them——Nay, if it be but a scoundrel cannon, we cast an ornament upon the breach of it.—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

—The act of killing and destroying a man, continued my father, raising his voice—and turning to my uncle Toby—you see, is glorious—and the weapons by which we do it are honourable—We march with them upon our shoulders—We strut with them by our sides—We gild them—We carve them—We in-lay them—We enrich them—Nay, if it be but a scoundrel cannon, we cast an ornament upon the breach of it.—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

By their voices I recognized Kornis and Daczo among my pursuers."
— from The Golden Age in Transylvania by Mór Jókai

The individual known as Deschars (a man nullified by his wife) does not hear the end of the sentence, by which he might have learned that a man may spend his money with other women.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The man, too, who, in good circumstances, will keep and drive a miserable horse, is the ridicule of his neighbors, because everybody knows what a good horse is, and that he should be well kept.
— from Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen

One reared a font of stone And drew, from butts of water on the slope, The fountain of the moment, playing, now A twisted snake, and now a rain of pearls, Or steep-up spout whereon the gilded ball Danced like a wisp: and somewhat lower down A man with knobs and wires and vials fired A cannon: Echo answered in her sleep From hollow fields: and here were telescopes For azure views; and there a group of girls In circle waited, whom the electric shock Dislinked with shrieks and laughter: round the lake A little clock-work steamer paddling plied And shook the lilies: perched about the knolls A dozen angry models jetted steam: A petty railway ran: a fire-balloon Rose gem-like up before the dusky groves And dropt a fairy parachute and past:
— from The Princess by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Deer is said to visit this part of the country in astonishing numbers, both in Spring and Autumn, of which circumstances the inhabitants avail themselves, by killing and drying as much of their flesh as possible, particularly in the fall of [274] the year; so that they seldom are in want of a good Winter's stock.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne

Karkkadakam, Kanni, Kumbham and Dhānu are months in which shaving should be avoided as far as possible.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It is, you know, a deep and most affecting tragedy in the reading.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson

307 And the Pirates, having now possessed themselves thereof, both killed and destroyed as many as attempted to make the least opposition against them.
— from The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

Its Sultán commands one thousand armed men; there is a Kelenter and Darogha, a Múnshí and Kádhí.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi