Unprepared, find unsuspecting, the "Caroline," at no time a Natch for her powerful adversary, must fall an easy victim; nor would there be much reason to apprehend that a single shot from the battery could reach them, before the captor, and his prize, would be at such a distance as to render the blow next to impotent if not utterly innocuous.
"The Red Rover"
James Fenimore Cooper
Sang the water-carrier: "I's Natch-i-ully gallant wid de ladies,-" and along with the trowel's tinkle came softly back, "I uz bawn wid a talent fo' de ladies."
"Kincaid's Battery"
George W. Cable
A puddle of light squirts out, and Natch he steps in it.
"Hoiman and the Solar Circuit"
Gordon Dewey