Will you tell me honestly whether now that you find this Mr. O’Neill is neither a dog-killer nor a puller down of bark ricks, you feel that you could forgive him for being an Irishman, if the mystery, as you call it, of the hole under the cathedral was cleared up?”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

Tom Masters was drowned off Beveridge Reef years ago, and Harry Laurance married his widow; and Tom Patterson is another man, who has a native wife, and—' He wrung Laurance's hand, sprang up the companion-way and called to his boat's crew,— 'Haul the boat alongside, boys.
— from Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 by Louis Becke

You-all doubles or breaks right yere.' "The turn falls trey-eight.
— from Wolfville Nights by Alfred Henry Lewis

The Duke of Burgundy required your liberation as one of the terms of peace, but could not obtain it.
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Afterwards Abon Hassan laid himself down again, and shutting his eyes, the same lady said again, Since your majesty does not rise, after we have, according to our duty, told you it was day, and the dispatch of business requires your presence, we shall use the liberty you give us in such like cases.
— from The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4) by Anonymous