In the City there are a great many churches, nearly all built by one man, Sir Christopher Wren, a very clever man.
— from The Children's Book of London by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Certain numbers of these were recruited from among the assigned servants, who absconded when they and their masters could not agree, but by far the greater proportion was furnished by the government gangs, escapes from which were for a long time frequent and generally successful.
— from Prisons Over Seas Deportation and Colonization; British and American Prisons of To-day by Arthur Griffiths

Javelins and pikes these enormous beasts made no account of, but upon setting fire to powder under their trunks they drew back with precipitation in spite of all the efforts of their drivers, overthrew their own people, and, flying to the distance of several miles, could not again be brought into the lines.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden