I am old and lame; No old merchant is a lame gambler.
— from The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll

By going as much as possible by starlight to avoid the heat, and resting during the day under some scraggy acacia tree or in the shadow of a Bedouin fort, we completed the distance of ninety odd miles in a little over four days.
— from Zigzag Journeys in the Camel Country: Arabia in Picture and Story by Samuel Marinus Zwemer

I was returning home empty-handed from a bear hunt, when night overtook me in a lonely spot near a mountain stream.
— from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill

'God will give me men in His time; for could I be cut up into five pieces already I would be living at Nengone, Lifu, Mai, Mota, and Bauro!' was the comment on this visit; and this need of men inspired a letter to his uncle Edward, on a day dear to the Etonian heart:— 'Schooner "Dunedin," 60 tons.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Later on, the number of men in a line may be increased considerably.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

War does but little mischief; for the number of males is at least one-twenty-fifth greater than that of females.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

"The nuisance of moving!" is a lamentation one hears often from those who have to do it; nobody ever heard it from me.
— from Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge

There is no other mention in ancient literature of the fight between Hercules and Typhoeus.
— from The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse by Virgil

I have since done so, and although not nearly the same measure of success has attended my experiments as his, yet by breeding bitches at the close of the heat rather than at its commencement, the number of males in a litter has materially increased.
— from The Boston Terrier and All About It A Practical, Scientific, and Up to Date Guide to the Breeding of the American Dog by Edward Axtell