I know a man wot got up i' the middle o' night, 'e did, an' more fool 'e!—an' off 'e goes by train down to seaside for the day—'e'd never seen the sea before an' it giv' 'im such a scare as 'e ain't got over it yet.
— from Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli

A modern historian has said: "The enterprising merchants of New England developed a network of trade routes that covered well-nigh half the world."
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

Nur ed Din was suspicious, and did not fall in with the proposals; this then left Gabou at the mercy of Nur ed Din, and the former picked a quarrel, during which Nur ed Din accused Gabou of the betrayal of the caravan to Saleh.
— from A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld