This we found, indeed, reasonable, so we resolved to furnish ourselves with provisions, that we might not be obliged to go abroad too much in the rain, and we spread ourselves some one way and some another, as far as we cared to venture, to get provisions; and our negroes killed us some deer, which we cured as well as we could in the sun, for we had now no salt.
— from The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe

"Would you sooner I didn't care if you ran a risk or not?" Kit used stern control.
— from Kit Musgrave's Luck by Harold Bindloss

My love should bestow upon one never kind, Upon Siris the lovely, whose cold, cruel mind, Would suffer unmoved a true lover to die.
— from Signelil, A Tale from the Cornish, and Other Ballads by George Borrow

And all that this writer says of Irenæus is that he declares the custom of not kneeling upon Sunday “took its rise from apostolic times”!
— from The Complete Testimony of the Fathers of the First Three Centuries Concerning the Sabbath and First Day by John Nevins Andrews