our Shoshonee Indian Guide employed himself makeing flint points for his arrows H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Now the heathen begins to think all is their own, and the poor Christians' hopes to fail (as to man) and now their eyes are more to God, and their hearts sigh heaven-ward; and to say in good earnest, "Help Lord, or we perish."
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

exclaimed Salome, in great excitement, her cheeks burning, and her eyes blazing with the fires of fever.
— from The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

[78] “No school in Georgia ever had such a field, and its social as well as political power may become immense.”
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 03, March, 1878 by Various

Jack sort’r tu’n matt’rs ov’r in his mine, an’ he say ter hisse’f, ‘I sho’ is er sho’ nuf big man, an’ I sho’ is got er heap er sense, ’caze I
— from Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South by Sarah Johnson Cocke

A greater number would have been spared if General Exelmans had not come and ordered the withdrawal of the men on foot, which was the signal for a hail of cannon-balls hurled at our squadrons.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de

"And I put a bowl of lilacs on her table this morning," said Rosemary happily, "so I guess everything has been attended to.
— from Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence

Surely, if ghosts ever haunt the scenes of their earthly life, I must have had many unseen companions with me on such occasions.
— from The Great War As I Saw It by Frederick George Scott

One foreman and 18 men on the top of the trench mixed and handled the concrete and granolithic mortar while one foreman, one carpenter and seven men in the trench set the forms and placed and rammed the concrete for one section in generally eight hours.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette