I seen sev'ral, sir, but I never 'it one nor wired one.
— from Mud and Khaki: Sketches from Flanders and France by Vernon Bartlett

"I hope Doctor Barnard is not ill." "Oh, no," I answered; "he has gone for a trip down the Mediterranean on a currant ship.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

The line has in itself neither matter nor substance and may rather be called an imaginary idea than a real object; and this being its nature it occupies no space.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

As a matter of fact, as I have before intimated, neither in Oakland, nor anywhere else where I have performed the feat, has anyone succeeded in finding out how it was done.
— from Twenty Years of Spoof and Bluff by Carlton

The 'plant-derived name,' shews that the island of the Phœnicians is intended, the phœnix (or palm), being a plant; both sea and land lay claim to it: the latter joins it to the continent, the former washes it on either side; thus it is seated in the one element, but without abandoning the other, to which it is united by its narrow isthmus or neck of land; moreover, it is not founded in the sea, but both under it and under the isthmus, the waters have free course; thus there is seen the singular spectacle of a city in the sea, and of an island upon shore.
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus