Every night, when at last, laden with gold, he climbs to his bed, he hopes piously that the morrow may be colder.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 by Various

Please own up," exclaimed Ned, with a laughing look into the old gentleman's face.
— from Elsie's Young Folks in Peace and War by Martha Finley

Boasting and bragging, and with his discourse liberally garnished with "Donner-wetters," and such-like meteorological expressions dear to the Teuton, this big chap let the world at large know what would happen on the great "Day"; when the whole "schwein-hund" Englander nation would, at long last, be knocked sky-high and to everlasting flinders by the ineffable and invincible Army of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
— from A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari And Other Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Carruthers Cornell

"It must be allowed," exclaimed Netz, with a loud laugh--"you know how to manage things admirably.
— from Specimens of German Romance; Vol. I. The Patricians by C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde