adventurers aboute y e French discipline, you doe us wrong, for we both hold & practice y e discipline of y e French & other reformed churches, (as they have published y e same in y e Harmony of Confessions,) according to our means, in effecte & substance.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

No black dress, no signs of mourning whatever are seen even among the nearest relatives; the service at church bespeaks triumph, and the organ mixes its enlivening sounds with the hymns, which [Pg 284] thank death for snatching a tender soul, when through a slight and transient tribute of pain, it could obtain an exemption from the power of sorrow.
— from Letters from Spain by Joseph Blanco White

But you are the only man I ever saw leave Sybaris who did not mean to return."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Sim was a mighty good hand t' work with; he was about the only man I ever sawed with who didn't ride the saw.
— from Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland