I say, it may be a Direction to such as those, what Lengths they may venture to go, without violating the Law of Nations, in Case they should meet other Ships at Sea, or be cast on some inhospitable Shore, which should refuse to trade with them for such Things as are absolutely necessary for the Preservation of their Lives, or the Safety of the Ship and Cargoe.
— 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

In the year one, eight, and forty-two, Of the year that is so new; In the third month of that sixteen, It may be a day or two between— Perhaps you’ll soon be stiff and cold.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

She: "It must be a dreadful thing to become old and ugly.
— from The Phil May Album by Phil May

'Well,' he sez, 'it must be another dog.
— from Mad Shepherds, and Other Human Studies by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

“Sorry it may be a day or two before we can send more of your coal.
— from Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss

The site is marked by a drinking-fountain on the right hand rather more than half way up FitzJohn’s Avenue.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

If it was pitch dark, or stormy, it might be a different story.
— from Boy Scouts on the Open Plains; Or, The Round-Up Not Ordered by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

The reader may say: “It must be a difficult matter to detect such mixed and educated Gipsies as those spoken of.”
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

Why, certainly so!— It might be a dimple turned over, you know!
— from Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye

And with that look something in me broke and died; it was as though I had torn out my heart, and thrown it in the dust at her feet.
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon