"That is the jealousy of France, sire, that ever desireth a hand in your affairs."
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

And after I've jumped around a few dozen times I'll be ready to dance a hoedown if you ask me."
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap

“It wouldn’t do any harm if you asked her,” said Nan.
— from Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

As between Monsieur Dunwodee and Hector— il y a une difference , Madame!" " Je crois qu' oui , Jeanne— Je le crois !
— from The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise by Emerson Hough

Their front was so wide we could not get round them, and frontal attacks on trenches are desperate affairs here if your artillery is paralysed by mirages.
— from Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916 From Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Robert Stafford Arthur Palmer

"Don't 'Monsieur Jim' me or I'll drill a hole in ye anyways!
— from The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

So recently as 1906, a chariot-burial was discovered at Hunmanby, in Yorkshire, and was described by Canon Green well in Archaeologia
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson