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

Yes, the to-morrow that follows to-night, but not the to-morrow of a year hence. JACQUES DE RANDOL [ emphatically ] You shall see.
— from Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales by Guy de Maupassant

I’s a ’ception ter dat rule, Ez you sho will fin’,
— from Darkey Ways in Dixie by Margaret A. (Margaret Alice) Richard

“That’s the deadest rooster ever,” yelled someone in derision.
— from Tar Heel Tales by H. E. C. (Henry Edward Cowan) Bryant

In the second place, where avalanches descend regularly every year, stone galleries are built, or tunnels are mined out of the solid rock to protect roads.
— from Switzerland by Frank Fox