Can it, then, be justifiable, on account of any vague fears of we know not what evils, to reject this just, salutary and hitherto uninjurious measure; and to cling to a system which we know, by certain experience, is producing crime, misery and death, during every day of its existence?"
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

y como le iban levantando, ponianle unos maderos atados de dos en dos, y unos puntales sobre que descanzase.' Hist.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Accidents in the mountains are less common than in the lowlands, and these mountain mansions are decent, delightful, even divine, places to die in, compared with the doleful chambers of civilization.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir