"E'bastevolmente agli amatori dell' Architettura, e dell' Antichita, l'opera del Signor Adams, che a donato molto a que' superbi vestigi coll'abituale eleganza del suo toccalapis
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Dey's a-fixin' places, dey sez, dat's why all dese folks is a-runnin' dis away en dat away like chickens wid dere haids chopped off.
— from The Battle Ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

—It is a great day, an expansive day, a large day.
— from In Pastures Green by Peter McArthur

The snow was deep enough anywhere that winter, but it was not a very cold day, and every drift and level was in prime condition for snow-balling.
— from Harper's Young People, January 4, 1881 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

I am in Paradise, but Paradise is a little dull, and exceedingly damp, at least in England.
— from A Rainy June, and Other Stories by Ouida

Well, during the first days, progress was very slow, the ice being rough and laney, and the dogs behaving most badly, stopping dead at every difficulty, and leaping over the traces.
— from The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

That was the place Mr. 'Coon had thought of, and they sat down there and spread out all the things on some moss, and everything looked so nice that Mr. 'Possum said they ought to come here every day and eat dinner as long as the [Pg 279] hot weather lasted.
— from The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book Being a continuation of stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine

The Sco. word has developed an excrescent d after l .
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom