A protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns christian, is far from being secure.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Clark, May 16, 1805] May 16th Thursday 1805 a fair morning our articles all out to Dry at 4 oClock we had every thing that was Saved dry and on bord, our loss is Some medison, Powder, Seeds, & Several articles which Sunk, and maney Spoiled had a medn.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

However, she assured me she had, at length, hit upon a plan, which would make quite another creature of me.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I was so excited by these heavy minute-guns following one another that I so far forgot my personal safety and my scalded hands as to clamber up into the hedge and stare towards Sunbury.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

If we were told that such a man, so honoured, and so honourable, suddenly casting away regard for his character, his vows, his brethren, and his prospects, had associated to himself a Jewish damsel, wandered in this lewd company, through solitary places, defended her person in preference to his own, and, finally, was so utterly blinded and besotted by his folly, as to bring her even to one of our own Preceptories, what should we say but that the noble knight was possessed by some evil demon, or influenced by some wicked spell?—If we could suppose it otherwise, think not rank, valour, high repute, or any earthly consideration, should prevent us from visiting him with punishment, that the evil thing might be removed, even according to the text, 'Auferte malum ex vobis'.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Ptychohyla ignicolor and several small and moderate sized hylids are sympatric.
— from A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by William Edward Duellman

The Tigercat remained standing a moment, swaying hither and thither, like a half-uprooted oak tottering to its fall.
— from Stoneheart: A Romance by Gustave Aimard

"Stop a moment," said he, "and go with me to the second shop beyond that corner, and get a bottle of Mrs. Kidder's cordial for your sick folks."
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott