The estuary of the Weser River is hemmed in by shoals and sandbanks, similar to those found at the entrance to Liverpool, London, and New York, rendering navigation extremely hazardous under the most favourable circumstances.
— from Lightships and Lighthouses by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

"Well, probably not, if you read nothing else," he owned.
— from The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes

"I'm ready to start, yes, right now," Elmer had said as he served the good supper over which he had been laboring, "but I does jes nach'elly hate to turn you young gemmen over to dese greaser cooks.
— from The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure by H. L. (Harry Lincoln) Sayler

Into life we come, mysteriously arrived, are set on our feet and on we go: functioning more or less ineffectively, passing through permutations and combinations; meeting the successive events, shocks, surprises of hours, days, years; becoming engulfed, submerged, foundered by them; all of us on the same adventure yet retaining nevertheless each his own individuality, as swimmers carrying each his undetachable burden through dark, enormous and cavernous seas.
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson