Returning to Woodbury, I met with a quaker, who informed me of the cause of the infectious disorder in the Great City: " It is a judgment on the inhabitants for their sins, insomuch that they sent to England for a number of play-actors, singers, and musicians , who were actually arrived ; and as a just judgment on the Philadelphians for encouraging these children of iniquity , they were now afflicted with the yellow fever."
— from Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. by William Priest

The ark was elevated by the deluge, and the waters the devil poured out to drown her did but slime the earth for a new increase of her.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

He was somewhat puzzled to think of a good name for it, but at length he remembered the shoeing of 94 the horses at Williamsburg, so he decided to call it the Order of the Golden Horseshoe, and sent to England for a number of small golden horseshoes, one of which he gave to each of his late companions.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2) by Charles Morris

'Considering that they have nothing but stone hammers and flint knives it is truly wonderful to see the exquisite finish and neatness of their implements of war and hunting, as well as their ear-rings and waist-bands, made of an amalgam of silver and lead.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

You—and no one as well as you—can save the Emperor for a nobler fate.
— from The Princess Virginia by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

His feet alighted upon an elevated and yielding substance, that gave way with a crashing sound that echoed far and near throughout the forest, and he felt himself secured as if in a trap.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson