Up through the blue summer morning came the sun, bringing to mind the words of the dying Mirabeau, "If that is not God, at least it's his first cousin."
— from The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

But these new isms, such as Spiritualism, Liberalism, Free-loveism, and every other species of modernized infidelity that is now gaining ground and receiving accessions from our Sunny South, are designed only to delude and drown the souls of their followers in eternal misery.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

The winds at length proving favorable, the little fleet proceeded along the old route by the Canaries, which they reached about the twenty-first of April, and on the twenty-sixth sailed for the West Indies, upon arriving at which it appears that Captain Smith was actually in command of the expedition, for, [38:A] writing afterwards in 1629, he says: "Because I have ranged and lived among those islands, what my authors cannot tell me, I think it no great error in helping them to tell it myself.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

Well, it is my intention to introduce Natty Grove to Nancy Briggs, and abide the result!
— from The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

{MN-1} Because I have ranged and lived amongst those Islands, what my Authors cannot tell me, I think it no great error in helping them to tell it my self.
— from The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629 by John Smith