PECHON, PESCHON DE RUBY , apprenti gueux, enfant (sans doute dérobé)”.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

PECHON , PESCHON DE RUBY , apprenti gueux, enfant (sans doute dérobé).”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Then I'd go over d' outfit ag'in, take back d' rings, an' give 'em each a two-dollar willyum.”
— from Sandburrs by Alfred Henry Lewis

Chicotin reached the carriage just as Monsieur de Roncherolle and Georget entered it.
— from The Flower Girl of The Château d'Eau, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVI) by Paul de Kock

This quotation was apropos of an announcement in the Evening Mail , of New York, telling that the Twentieth Century Crœsus and financial philosopher, John D. Rockefeller, had uttered a Confession of his Faith in the fundamental principles of Dietetic Righteousness and General Efficiency as follows: "Don't gobble your food.
— from Fletcherism: What It Is; Or, How I Became Young at Sixty by Horace Fletcher

After a while all the diamond rabbits are gone, even the diamond chin sitting on the diamond toenails of the rabbits next to the handles of the accordion, even those are gone.”
— from Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg

* The father a famous general, nice pictures, expensive furniture; he died; the daughters received a good education, but are slovenly, read little, ride, and are dull.
— from Note-Book of Anton Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

D., and George Dickie, M. D. Religion and Geology , Edward Hitchcock, LL.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

In this list are found 'Johnson's Dictionary,' then regarded as one of the wonders of the literary world, 'Chesterfield's Letters,' long the vade-mecum of every young gentleman beginning life, and which, even in our own days (and perhaps still), were frequently bound along with spelling and reading books, the 'Pilgrim's Progress', which it is not necessary to characterize, Young's 'Night Thoughts,' the 'Spectator and 'Guardian,' Rapin's 'English History,' 'Cook's Voyages,' Rousseau's 'Eloise,' 'Télémaque,' 'Histoire Chinoise,' 'Esprit des Croissades,' 'Lettres de Fernand Cortes,' 'Histoire Ancienne' par Rollin, 'Grammaire Anglaise et Française,' 'Dictionnaire par l'Académie,' 'Dictionnaire de Commerce,' 'Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences,' 'Smith's Housewife,' 'The Devil on Sticks,' 'Voltaire's Essay on Universal History,' 'Dictionnaire de Cuisine' and several others on various subjects, 'Oeuvres de Rabelais,' 'American Gazetteer,' etc.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir