If I 'd have known it earlier in life, I 'd have saved half of my left lung, which is now hopelessly hepatized.” L'Estrange looked compassionate, though not very well knowing what it was he had pity for.
— from The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

do', 'e is look inside da house.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Very early in life I depicted him when he had reached old age,—that is to say, his old age; for he had not, at the time of his death, numbered as many years as are now upon my own head.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James