"A little before you go to sleep read something that is exquisite and worth remembering, and contemplate upon it till you fall asleep; and when you awake in the morning call yourself to an account for it."
— from The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Frank Parsons

Arter a while they come back and come up into the yard, the lawyer still a pintin, the feller still a lookin and noddin.
— from Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat), Wife of Jobe Gaskins (Republican) Or, Uncle Tom's Cabin Up to Date by W. I. (William I.) Hood

As soon as 775 went down the yard and got the train of thirty-six cars, and came up into the yard, and 473 coupled ahead and pulled her out, there was four or five policemen got on each engine, and John Major, he was on 473, and the engineer of 473, pulled her out.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

Let mother step over the sill first and call us into the Yellow House!
— from Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

And [113] mind, you are not to think of playing in public, at a concert, until I tell you.
— from The Unknown Quantity: A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke

Of the Trees, that beren Mele, Hony, Wyn and Venym; and of othere Mervayilles and Customes, used in the Yles marchinge thereabouten.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt