‘Only let us get shut of this wicked house, and we’ll do right enough, you’ll see.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

—Si ella y usted me hubieran dejado, resuelta estaría ya.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Were the tall and very beautiful spire which in the present day is to be seen where the Davenport Road enters Yonge Street, the appendage of an ecclesiastical edifice of the mediæval period—as the architecture implies—it would indicate, in all probability, the presence of a Church of St. Giles.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

somethin’ wrong ’bout dis business, en den he would inquire ’bout you, en dat would take him to yo’ uncle, en yo’ uncle would read de bill en see dat you be’n sellin’ a free nigger down de river, en you know him , I reckon!
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

I knows it ’ca’se you knows dat if you don’t raise dat money I’ll go to him myself, en den he’ll sell you down de river, en you kin see how you like it!”
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

The fresh light of day returned, ever young and new, untouched by the stains of men which the sun drinks up like a morning mist.
— from Clerambault: The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland

Excuse me, but didn’t I see Mr. Dunstan Renshaw enter your outer office just then?
— from The Profligate: A Play in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

M. Castro ( Decadencia de España , Cadiz, 1852, p. 105) says, ‘España perdió en los moriscos un millon de habitantes;’ and M. Janer ( Condicion de los Moriscos , Madrid, 1857, p. 93), ‘Sin entrar en cálculos sobre los que habia cuando se expidio el edicto de Valencia en 1609, ni sobre los que fenecieron en las rebeliones, de mano armada, de sed, de hambre ó ahogados, creemos poder fijar, aproximadamente, en novecientos mil los que llegaron á poner el pie fuera de la península, despidiéndose para siempre de las costas y fronteras de España, cuya cifra deducimos del exámen y contexto de unos y otros escritores, de las listas que nos han quedado de los expulsos, de los datos de diversas relaciones, estados y documentos examinados con este solo intento;’ and further on, p. 105, ‘la expulsion de un millon, ó novecientos mil de sus habitantes.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Now, as I know she wishes to be acquainted with you, and converse with you, I do really entreat you not to draw back from her, nor to stop conversation with only answering 'Yes,' or 'No.'”
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

Den de cunjuh man tuk de go'ds en bottles, en 'mence' ter wuk de roots en yarbs, en de mule 'mence' ter turn back ter a man,—fust his years, den de res' er his head, den his shoulders en arms.
— from The Conjure Woman by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

She longs for Christmas to come, to know if it will bloom, as it does regularly every year in the gardens of the Bishop's palace.
— from Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson