The peasants, whom we [Pg 388] sometimes met in the interior of the country, where their livelihood must be earned with the hardest labour, and whose necessity during the long and dismal months of winter must not be much inferior to absolute want, ever seemed cheerful and ready, not only to share their scanty fare with us, but to give us milk and butter, and dried fish, or other dainties which they may have hoarded for the coming time of cold and darkness.
— from A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross

When the crowd had gathered we held out our caps, and receiving nine or ten sous, we entered a cabaret.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat