Dey’s de dadblamedest creturs to ’sturb a body, en rustle roun’ over ’im, en bite his feet, when he’s tryin’ to sleep, I ever see.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A book entitled "Red River Settlement," published by Sheriff Ross, some years after this time, is really a lively and correct account in most respects of the Selkirk colony.
— from John Black, the Apostle of the Red River Or, How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled on Manitoba Prairies by George Bryce

This division of the total head of water afforded by each river results in a rather small capacity for each station, the total at the five plants being only 4,225 kilowatts.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

Hazlewood, who does not seem to have been unpleasantly particular in telling the truth when living, told it with a vengeance after his death; for among his papers there was a bundle entitled 'Roxburghe Revels,' which Thorpe purchased for £40, the editor of the Athenæum being the under-bidder.
— from The Book-Hunter in London Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. (William) Roberts

"I never knew any body else," replied Richards, adopting a cis-Atlantic figure of speech for which rhetoricians have as yet found no name.
— from Vassall Morton: A Novel by Francis Parkman

Boxtel, thunderstruck, and Cornelius, in joyful amazement, both exclaimed,— “Rosa! Rosa!”
— from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas

Who ever heard of a bull elephant rampaging round with a red diamond stuck in his forehead?”
— from Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville

Off she went on foot, got a bandy en route , reached the town before the festival was over, found the house to which she had been directed—a little shut-up house, doors and windows all closed—managed, how we never knew, to get in, found a young woman, a Temple woman from Travancore, with a little child asleep on the mat beside her, persuaded her to slip out of the house with the child without wakening anyone, crept out of the town and fled away into the night, thankful for the blessed covering darkness.
— from Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael

This quality in man may very naturally be thought to have a basis essentially rational rather than instinctive if its manifestations are not regarded with a special effort to attain an objective attitude.
— from Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by W. (Wilfred) Trotter

Mounted my horse at eight o'clock and by easy riding reached a farm house in Rock River Bottom, where I passed the noon hour.
— from Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Development of Cities and Towns Along the Route; and Regions Traversed Beyond the Mississippi; Together with Incidents, Anecdotes and Adventures of the Journey by Willard W. Glazier