Old men still walk the Isle of Orr Who tell her date and name, Old shipwrights sit in Freeport yards Who hewed her oaken frame.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

It may be they'll outlast us; an' so I say as a friend, save one shot; save it for yourself, Cap."
— from Overland: A Novel by John William De Forest

I will have a basin of soup sent in for you.
— from Out with Garibaldi: A story of the liberation of Italy by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

As 117 shots are to one shot, so is fifty yards to X (the distance the adversary must be off to enable him to be winged, with a single shot).
— from The Modern Pistol and How to Shoot It by Walter Winans

He who hath received the gift of seven sons, in five years, need never be a poor nor a dependent man, in a country like this.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

CHINATOWN Because of occasional slight shocks in former years, the inhabitants had built their city of wood, thinking it safer than brick or stone.
— from Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial by Stephen Elliott Kramer