My mind was too active with thinking that I was lying in the historic ground, over which the battle had rolled.
— from Tell England A Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond

However, there is nothing to grumble at; and I may consider myself lucky indeed to have got off with a flesh wound when so many good fellows have fallen.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Then I said to Lars, "If the horse gives out, we will try to build a snow house for us three.
— from The Land of the Long Night by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

In fact, vast numbers of Chinese vessels are lost in these heavy gales of wind; and ten or twelve thousand subjects from the port of Canton alone are reckoned to perish annually by shipwreck.
— from Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir