After steering over to the north side and ascertaining that the shoal water extended across the bay we stood out again, and resumed a course along the most rugged and most stony land I ever saw; the stones are all of rounded form and heaped up in a most extraordinary and confused manner, as if it were effected by some extraordinary convulsion of nature.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Philip Parker King

Mrs. Jogglebury, who had sat listening in ecstasies, saw the offended eye and pouting lip of the boy, and attempted to make up with exclamations of 'That is a clever fellow!
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

It was the veriest piece of sheer luck I ever saw that we did not all go down together.
— from Guy Garrick by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

I waited so long in each spot, that it was like being transplanted when I moved myself to the north or the south.
— from Saxe Holm's Stories First Series by Helen Hunt Jackson

We have had such luck in escaping shells that we grow careless.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson

[* This "one so large." is Espiritu Santo ; Torres, evidently, did not share Queiroz's belief, but took it for what it was, an island.
— from The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea Being The Narrative of Portuguese and Spanish Discoveries in the Australasian Regions, between the Years 1492-1606, with Descriptions of their Old Charts. by George Collingridge

[308] The chroniclers, whether they be Slavic, Rumanian, or Ottoman, are so contradictory and so lacking in explicit statement that we cannot speak with certainty of the sequence of events.
— from The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403) by Herbert Adams Gibbons

— A.D. 530, certain Saxons landed in Essex, so that the county of Essex [East-Seaxe] was the fourth district where the original British was superseded by the mother-tongue of the present English, introduced from Northern Germany.
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham