'I am not a bit—I am not a bit sorry, neighbor; they are upstarts, nothing else; and they have made all the folks about them think that they are the end of the law.
— from I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by A. S. (Azel Stevens) Roe

“Ah! here we have this small rock—Fate Island, I see the natives call it—away to the south-west; and that lofty bluff headland, north by west, now shining so white, as if formed of marble, is Fitfiel Head, or the White Mountain , I see by a note—not an unfit name either; and that high point to the south-east again is Sumburgh Head.
— from Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War by William Henry Giles Kingston

This ridge of the Alleghanies is very steep; but you have no distinct view as you climb up, not even at the Hawk’s Nest, where you merely peep down into the ravine below.
— from Diary in America, Series One by Frederick Marryat

One sees what ground there may be for such lament on turning up the dates of this unhappy Nile expedition, and the heart aches at the sight of those dumb figures.
— from Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

[87] "Let us not establish a tyranny," Hamilton wrote Oliver Wolcott.—
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander