Mr. Elliott deems universal suffrage, as it exists in America, an universal evil, because the worst and meanest of mankind, who are the most numerous every where, are enabled to exert an overwhelming influence over the good and the honourable.
— from Faux's Memorable Days in America, 1819-20; and Welby's Visit to North America, 1819-20, part 2 (1820) by W. (William) Faux

It appears that Mr. Singleton had lent to a Mr. English four or five negroes, whom at a certain time he claimed, according to agreement, and took back to his own place: hence arose a dispute as to the right of possession; which dispute the sons of Mr. English decided upon settling in a right border fashion.
— from Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 2 (of 2) by Tyrone Power

I made it a point to go for the mail every day until she was taken sick.
— from Little Wolf: A Tale of the Western Frontier by Mary Ann Mann Cornelius

But the King, whose heart had been softened by his sorrow for Siawush and by the eloquent pleading of Piran-Wisa for the life of the child, shut his ears unto them, saying: “Verily, I repent me of my evil deed unto Siawush, and though it be written that much evil shall come unto me from this offspring of his race, yet will I not again stain my hands with the blood of any of his house.
— from The Story of Rustem, and other Persian hero tales from Firdusi by Elizabeth D. Renninger

hallaron la tierra alzada, de suerte que fué preciso entrar á la sierra en busca de maiz, y por cabo el maese de campo, Lopez de Samaniego; internáronse en la espesura de un monte, en donde un soldado que inadvertidamente se apartó, fué aprehendido por los indios, dió voces, á las que, como vigilante, acudió el maese de campo, y libró del peligro al soldado, y pareciéndole estar seguro, alzó la vista á tiempo que de entre unos matorrales se le disparó una flecha, que entrándole por un ojo, le atravesó el cerebro. . . .
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

It was true he had been out of training when he started from Forres, and had walked many miles each day upon short rations, but he was dismayed to find that his powers of endurance were not greater.
— from Wayfaring Men: A Novel by Edna Lyall

On voyage tout éveillé dans le royaume des rêves et des illusions; l'esprit se refuse à admettre les merveilles executées dans une salle éclairé
— from Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert by University of Pennsylvania. Seybert Commission for Investigating Modern Spiritualism

A brave estate gained in one year out of such great works, where three, six, or it may be eight thousand pounds per annum is expended for clearing their mines of water only, besides the charge and repair of gins, engines, horses, &c. I hope you will not now account my engines dear under such conditions as I now offer; but if I should, with you, suppose my engine proportionably dear, or as dear as the engines you now use for drawing up your water, which is impossible, my engine will be preferable before yours in many respects, insomuch, as mine prevents your damps, and the evil effect of them: and as it will be my interest to allow those that first set my engine at work considerable advantages, so I hope I may assure myself of due encouragement from the ingenious, who are ever studious to promote all inventions useful and beneficial to the public; for they must conclude, that an engine which for some time has daily employed the best artificers to work on it, was not to be brought forth in one day: and to bring it to that perfection you now find it, must have cost me and my friends not a little money to make the workmen capable of their work with that certainty and exactness they now do.
— from The Miner's Friend; Or, An Engine to Raise Water by Fire by Thomas Savery