Their Stay at Princes was from July 28 to Sept. 20, 1721, where, by a Fatality, common to the Irregularities of Seamen, (who cannot in such Cases be kept under due Restraints,) they buried 100 Men in three Weeks time, and reduced the Remainder of the Ships Companies into so sickly a State, that it was with Difficulty they brought them to sail; and this Misfortune was probably the Ruin of Roberts , for it prevented the Men of War’s going back to Sierraleon , as it was intended, there being a Necessity of leaving his Majesty’s Ship Weymouth (in much the worse Condition of the two) under the Guns of Cape Corso , to impress Men, being unable at this Time, either to hand the Sails, or weigh her Anchor; and Roberts being ignorant of the Occasion or Alteration of the first Design, fell into the Mouth of Danger, when he thought himself the farthest from it; for the Men of War not endeavouring to attain further to Windward (when they came from Princes ) then to secure Cape Corso Road under their Lee, they luckily hovered in the Track he had took.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

The physician declares, that it was impossible she could have been so ill as was proved by witnesses; because it was impossible she could, in so short a time, have recovered so perfectly as he found her.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

“I can't weed for fear I pull up the wrong things,” she used to say comfortably; “it saves such a lot of work.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The quantity of silver contained in six shillings and eightpence of our present money, would thus be raised very nearly to the denomination of a pound sterling.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Know ye that I have granted to God and St. Peter of Westminster, and to the abbot Vitalis, the gift which Almundus of the port of S. Buttolph gave them, when he was there made monke: that is to say, his Lords court with the houses, and one wharf, which is at the head of London bridge, and all other his lands which he had in the same city, in such sort as King Edward more beneficially and amply granted the same; and I will and command
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

“She certainly is,” smiled Stoker and performed the necessary introductions.
— from Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case by Dorothy Wayne

Far be it from me to seek complexity in so simple a soul as was that of this young Hungarian peasant girl.
— from A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The marvel was that so much ashes and cinders could come from a single crater in so short a period.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

she cried, in such sudden and genuine dismay as to make him laugh, and to bring a smile to her own lips against herself.
— from Adventure by Jack London

At last, perched on a level which seemed nothing more than a mere shelf of rock, we saw our destined haven—a grey stone farm-house, high over our heads, high above the lake as we were—with out-buildings enough around it to justify the Scotch name of a “town”; and near it one of those great bossy sycamores, so common in similar situations all through Cumberland and Westmorland.
— from Mrs. Gaskell by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell