Abel’s bed had been drawn aside, and there was a hole in the ground, while upon the upturned barrel which formed their table stood a little leather bag half full of scales, scraps, and nuggets of gold—that which remained after Dallas had taken out a sufficiency to purchase stores at the town on the Yukon.
— from To Win or to Die: A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by George Manville Fenn

On this occasion it was a wonderful gathering, a microcosm of the world, with an English peer, an Indian Maharajah, many native gentlemen, whites of every type from four great countries, and a fringe of stewards, stewardesses, and nondescripts of all sorts, including [296] the ship's barber, who is one of the most active men on the ship in an intellectual sense.
— from The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had the advantage of the robbers; for, while they were preparing their muskets to fire, I could hurl five or six stones, and not one of them missed its mark.
— from Told by the Death's Head: A Romantic Tale by Mór Jókai

In July he wrote to Chauncey: "The enemy's fleet of six sail are now off the bar of this harbor.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot