but hed do the same to the next woman that came along I suppose he died of galloping drink ages ago the days like years not a letter from a living soul except the odd few I posted to myself with bits of paper in them so bored sometimes I could fight with my nails listening to that old Arab with the one eye and his heass of an instrument singing his heah
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Gregory awakened the emperor from a long slumber; exposed the guilt or incapacity of the exarch and his inferior ministers; complained that the veterans were withdrawn from Rome for the defence of Spoleto; encouraged the Italians to guard their cities and altars; and condescended, in the crisis of danger, to name the tribunes, and to direct the operations, of the provincial troops.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Ta famiho A la sousto en terro soumiho, Et tu dormes la som que n'a ges de revèi; Toun cadabre toumbo en douliho.
— from Social Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre

On the left bank of the stream an encampment of Egyptian soldiers formed a large semicircle, enclosing three large tents made of costly material striped with blue and white, and woven with gold thread.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 08 by Georg Ebers

I admit the difficulties of framing a law sufficiently elastic to meet this need.
— from Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

Everything old now goes for a large sum, except," thoughtfully, "aunts."
— from The Hoyden by Duchess