Let's see; you will have the shop to sweep out, the window shutters to take down and put up, night and morning, errands to run, sewing, washing, ironing, and scrubbing to do, dishes to wash, beside a few other little things.
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

"The Directory see me here with uneasiness, notwithstanding all my efforts to throw myself into the shade.
— from Joseph Bonaparte Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Should he push his explorations further, he will come in contact with the barbarous negro tribes of the upper Nile, and may encounter troops of giraffes and elephants.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Until now all my efforts to reach Europe had been fruitless.
— from My Escape from Donington Hall, Preceded by an Account of the Siege of Kiao-Chow in 1915 by Gunther Plüschow

Also, as the grass springs up nearly a month earlier than in Upper Missouri, caravans could start much sooner, and the proprietors would have double the time to conduct their mercantile transactions.
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg