[69] una cabeza de búfalo en el desierto, es el mismo que nosotros usamos para batear una cabeza de vaca o un lomo de ternera.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

Lizzie my daughter uster git up in de night en git her some beans en eat dem en dis dream war
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Garthmund claims thee as his bride; ere eight days expire the marriage feast will be held.
— from The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century by Anonymous

qu'on y avoit bâtie est entièrement détruite, et il n'en subsiste plus qu'une petite chose (case), là où Nostre-Dame estoit quand l'angèle lui apparut.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

This is the number of the whole army of Xerxes; but of the women who made bread for it, and of the concubines and eunuchs no man can state any exact number, nor again of the draught-animals and other beasts of burden or of the Indian hounds, which accompanied it, could any one state the number by reason of their multitude: so that it does not occur to me to wonder that the streams of some rivers should have failed them, but I wonder rather how the provisions were sufficient to feed so many myriads; for I find on computation that if each man received a quart 189 of wheat every day and nothing more, there would be expended every day eleven myriads of medimnoi
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

In point of fact, I have been expecting every day, every hour almost, a deputation to ask me to allow myself to be put in nomination—I fancy that's the correct phrase.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 107, December 1, 1894 by Various

Conscious of her own beauty, of her own wit, of her own high and powerful intellect, perhaps over-confident in her resources, she determined on that instant that she would devote them all, all to one purpose, to which she would bend every energy, direct every thought of her mind—to her own aggrandizement, by means of some great and splendid marriage, which should set her as far above the heiress of Ditton-in-the-Dale, as the rich heiress now stood in the world's eye above the portionless and dependent sister.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Various