In Ethnography, the writer is his own chronicler and the historian at the same time, while his sources are no doubt easily accessible, but also supremely elusive and complex; they are not embodied in fixed, material documents, but in the behaviour and in the memory of living men.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The same abuses, no doubt, existed formerly to as great an extent in that country, but, being longer settled, it has outgrown the evil.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

He had his mouth full of snow, and, not daring either to spit it out or to swallow it, he stood there choking and staring at us, and made no answer.
— from Cuore (Heart): An Italian Schoolboy's Journal by Edmondo De Amicis

“When a flock passes, all the guns are discharged simultaneously, and the ducks, which at times respond in showers, are nominally divided equally.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Newfoundland by Ford Fairford

One cannot read of her lively, bustling, almost forward, but obliging and generous conduct at the well, nor of her prompt, impulsive departure to an unknown land, without seeing, as no doubt Eliezer very quickly saw, that this was exactly the woman for Isaac.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods

As soon as Flintyheart and his followers ascertained that the "disguised and armed" were actually off again, and that they were not to pass the morning in a skirmish, as no doubt each man among them had hoped would be the case, they set up such whoops and cries as had not been heard on those meadows during the last eighty years.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Dey comes in as steerage, an' naturally, d' Ellis Island gezebos collars 'em an' t'rows 'em into hock d' moment dey hits d' pier.
— from Sandburrs by Alfred Henry Lewis

If the rope is a small one, it may be served without worming, as the grooves between the strands are not deep enough to cause great unevenness of surface.
— from Sailing by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

On an island, belonging to our host, and nearly opposite his house, they loved to stay, and, no doubt, enjoyed its lavish beauty as much as the myriad wild pigeons that now haunt its flower-filled shades.
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

He saw, and no doubt Elisha had strongly impressed on him the truth, that his healing was the work not of man but of God; and as he had found no help in the deities of Syria, he confessed that the God of Israel was the only true God among those of the nations.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Below the gallery sat a nice dignified elderly man who wrote a note on a slip of paper, folded it and gave it to a boy.
— from Evening Round-Up More Good Stuff Like Pep by William Crosbie Hunter