V. My future lot I cannot know
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Mag. , and from MS. letter of the late Judge Oliver Burnham, of Cornwall, Conn., a soldier in Wyllys' regiment and one of the Rangers, in which he says: "Soon after the retreat from Long Island, Colonel Knowlton was ordered to raise a battalion of troops from the different regiments called the Rangers, to reconnoitre along our shores and between the armies.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

Employment of youthful or female labor in certain kinds of factories, which is attended with special danger to health or morals, is forbidden, or made conditional on certain regulations, by which night labor for female work-people is especially forbidden.
— from Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Helen Campbell

You’ve chosen a great career, and all we must do now is to make success assured, so that you can come to me as I know you want to come, saying, ‘Mr. Carleton, I’m earning a fair living; I can keep your daughter from want; I wish to marry her.’
— from The Carleton Case by Ellery H. (Ellery Harding) Clark

“Und' dose herders, dey sets dem by der rock and laugh till I felt like I could kill der whole punch, by cosh!
— from The Flying U Ranch by B. M. Bower