The girl was of age to marry, and her mother used to talk with her a good deal, and tell her she must [ 338 ] be sure to take no one but a good hunter for a husband, so that they would have some one to take care of them and would always have plenty of meat in the house.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

After the warriors and the matrons had made a hearty meal upon the muscular flesh which they pared from the victim, and had applied a great variety of tortures, which he bore without flinching, an old lady, with a sharp knife, scooped out one of his eyes, and put a burning coal in the socket.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

After carrying the shote into the edge of the swamp, bruin had stopped and made a hasty meal upon the porker.
— from With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster

The object was to induce the Prophet to persevere in uniting the tribes against the United States, but not to make any hostile movement, until the signal was given him by the British authorities.
— from Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Benjamin Drake

He was learned in the geography of the valley and told us how once the Cohocton River, now merely a decorative stream among willows, was once a serviceable waterway, how it was once busy with mills, and how men used to raft down it as far as Elmira.
— from October Vagabonds by Richard Le Gallienne

If it was necessary for him when he was composing, it is necessary for us if we are to listen to the music as he meant us to listen to it.
— from Musical Studies by Ernest Newman

The work was done as quickly and quietly as possible, but every now and then one of the men as he moved up the slope to the man above him struck the edge of his bucket against a rock, causing a sound that could hardly escape attentive ears.
— from Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

Sometimes, however, they fall a victim to their stingless enemy, who in that case makes a hearty meal upon their remains.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

Such were the thoughts of Marcellus as he mused upon the scene and again recalled the words of Cicero, "Can you think that the buried inmates are unhappy?"
— from The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by James De Mille

But the impression my appeal had made upon them had faded away already, and they only shrugged their shoulders and turned again to their task.
— from The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman

Hurry, mamma, and help me untie them!
— from Mary Ware in Texas by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

I think we were going between 10 or 12 miles an hour, maybe up to 15 miles an hour.
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission