What is, dramatically, disastrous in the instance of Mertoun singing "There's a woman like a dewdrop," when he ought to be seeking Mildred's presence in profound stealth and silence, is, dramatically, electrically startling in the mouth of Sebald, among the geraniums of the shuttered shrub-house, where he has passed the night with Ottima, while her murdered husband lies stark in the adjoining room.
— from Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp

“Ah, so it does,” 'e ses.
— from Sailors' Knots (Entire Collection) by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

"Ah, so it does," 'e ses.
— from Peter's Pence Sailor's Knots, Part 8. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

[237] Theodor Waitz regards primitive man both as purely a product of, and as being completely at the mercy of, circumambient nature: “ Denken wir uns vom Menschen Alles hinweg, was an ihm Wirkung der Kultur ist, so steht er da als bloßes Produkt der Macht, die ihn in’s Leben rief, ... Das Erste, was an ihm charakteristisch für uns 71 hervorträte, würde die sehr vollständige Abhängigkeit sein, in der er sich von seiner Naturumgebung befände: der gesammte Inhalt, den sein inneres Leben zunächst gewönne, würde ein ziemlich reines Produkt dieser letzteren sein.
— from The Theory of Environment An Outline of the History of the Idea of Milieu, and Its Present Status, part 1 by Armin Hajman Koller

Their warning beams were not withdrawn from foreign vessels; no effort was made to establish the nationality of a ship in distress ere setting portfire to the signal-gun to call out the lifeboat.
— from Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone