aujourd’huy dans la cõnoissance des Belles Lettres, et sur tout de la Philosophic Naturelle.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

“J’ en ai eu,” says he “l’original de Monsieur D’Avisson, medecin des mieux versez qui soient aujourd’huy dans la c�noissance des Belles Lettres, et sur tout de la Philosophic Naturelle.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

wen he got in, to perwent the necessity o’ the coachman’s gettin’ down, and thereby undeceivin’ the public by lettin’ ‘em see that it wos only a livery coat as he’d got on, and not the trousers to match.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

One need not invite slang into the company of its betters, though perhaps slang has been dropping its "s" and becoming language ever since the world began, and is certainly sometimes delightful and forcible beyond the reach of the dictionary.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

And as the act of bowing before the Lord sometimes accompanied and indicated the exercise of swearing by his name; so when attention to his worship is urged by his authority, no part of religious duty is uninculcated, but, like every service thereof in its due season, that of Covenanting with him in times suited to its performance, is enjoined.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

Mrs. McNabb informed him that Jessie and Donald had been lovers ever since the day at school when he had thrashed Pat Duffy for taking a forcible and liberal bite out of her one apple.
— from Duncan Polite, the Watchman of Glenoro by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

From that time till the accession of George III the family, though it remained untitled, had added to its consequence by intermarriages of considerable dignity,— chosen, indeed, with a disregard for money uncommon amongst the English aristocracy; so that the estate was but little enlarged since the reign of James, though profiting, of course, by improved cultivation and the different value of money.
— from Lucretia — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Lanier, S. Nonsense Books. Lear, E. Story Telling Poems.
— from How Girls Can Help Their Country by Juliette Gordon Low

The Tegeans on the one hand said as follows: "We have been always judged worthy of this post by the whole body of allies in all the common expeditions which the Peloponnesians have made before this, whether in old times or but lately, ever since that time when the sons of Heracles endeavoured after the death of Eurystheus to return to the Peloponnese.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

[Pg 349] 'The streets; an' she'll dee in a cellar, or an hospital, maybe, if she's fortunate enough to get into wan; an' it'll no' be lang either,' said Teen, in a quite matter-of-fact way, as if it were the merest commonplace detail.
— from The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. Swan

Again, attracted by loud eager singing, the student found a pair who were apparently fighting,—the peaceful goldfinch!
— from Little Brothers of the Air by Olive Thorne Miller

All that need be said upon this head is that, as far as report can be accepted as evidence, vice is the only commodity which has become less expensive since the war began.
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

The showers were of American make and were built large enough so that twenty-five or thirty men could take a bath at a time.
— from In the Flash Ranging Service Observations of an American Soldier During His Service With the A.E.F. in France by Edward Alva Trueblood