"This war is at least extending my knowledge of geography.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[ 186 ] The entire population of England that was not actually needed at home would be compelled to take the field, and in the slaughter (it is curious how little English men know of the terrific proportions of the conflict between the North and South) the demand for officers would be so great that there would not be enough men of previous training to fill the places.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

As best I can tell, we lost eighteen men killed outright.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

Let every man keep out of range.
— from The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Hulbert Footner

He had lost eighty men killed or wounded.
— from A History, of the War of 1812-15 Between the United States and Great Britain by Rossiter Johnson

i ike mai ai ia Laieikawai e hoomaka ana e kukuli; kahea mai la ka Hiwahiwa, "E kuu Haku wahine, e Laieikawai e! mai kukuli oe, ua like no kaua."
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole