The breath was scarcely out o’ your poor mother-in-law’s body, ven vun old ‘ooman sends me a pot o’ jam, and another a pot o’ jelly, and another brews a blessed large jug o’ camomile-tea, vich she brings in vith her own hands.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Having seen Jacopo fairly out of the harbor, Dantès proceeded to make his final adieus on board La Jeune Amélie , distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of all, and expressions of cordial interest in all that concerned him.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And thus they parted, each by separate doors; Baba led Juan onward room by room Through glittering galleries and o'er marble floors, Till a gigantic portal through the gloom, Haughty and huge, along the distance lowers; And wafted far arose a rich perfume: It seem'd as though they came upon a shrine, For all was vast, still, fragrant, and divine.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

[la]ri itu, tiada hilang; jika berniaga, beruleh laba; jika mendatangi, orang, baik; jika di-sĕrang orang tiada baik; jika menerka (?) puteh kuning deri kanan hijau deri kiri; jika [membuat] bilah pandak deri kanan panjang deri kiri; jika biji, genap bilang-nya; jika luka pada katika itu hingga lutut-nya ka bawah.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

So saying, he spurred his horse upon Little John, and rising in his stirrups smote with might and main, but Little John ducked quickly underneath the horse's belly and the blow whistled harmlessly over his head.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Before long Jurgis discovered what Scully had meant by something “turning up.”
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

But Echo Lodge is to be left just as it is. . .
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But little Johnnie, he would.
— from Diet and Health; With Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters

A brave lad jumps in to save him, and receives the dagger in his own body.
— from Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

Absurd as this seems, it is put forward by learned Jesuits, who say men will rather have the present chance than wait for others.
— from The Ocean of Theosophy by William Quan Judge

He reviewed them himself, sitting alone in Mont-Mer's bleak little jail.
— from The Rest Hollow Mystery by Rebecca N. (Rebecca Newman) Porter

Before long Jackson had a letter from Overseer Steele complaining of “a quarrel and fight” he had had with Hutchings over the youth’s desire to whip a slave who had offended him; and again the harrassed guardian had to write to Coffee asking him to use his influence to get the boy to go back to school.
— from The Hermitage, Home of Old Hickory by Stanley F. Horn

His father proudly patted him on the back and swung him up on the saddle, but little Jane scrambled to her feet and darting to his side reached up her plump little hand, exclaiming, "I picked these gentians for you, Benjamin!"
— from Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster

And if she is worthy of love, as for beauty she is, Gisippus, if he should come to know that I love her, ought to be less jealous than another.
— from The Decameron, Volume II by Giovanni Boccaccio

By Louis Joseph Vance.
— from Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)