he gwine ter frail us out, but atter he done landed er few licks on us, en den us
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Fine lines, of unerring exactness, never broken, are seen on the genuine medallion heads, or shields, upon which the designation of the note is sometimes stamped.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

Other family legends of uncomfortable eccentricity and general worrisomeness she utterly disproved, for never was there a kindlier or more placid soul than she.
— from The Friendly Club and Other Portraits by Francis Parsons

It was between five and six when he came to the iron gates of The Spaniards, and the sun was setting behind the hills yonder above Penmorval, poor deserted Penmorval, where the pictured faces looked out upon empty floors, and where the housekeeper sighed as she went from room to room, attending to fires that warmed desolate hearths.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Now believe me, my friends, as surely as a man’s flesh can die and be buried, while he himself, his soul, lives for ever, just so a man’s self, his soul, can die, while his flesh lives on upon earth.
— from Sermons for the Times by Charles Kingsley

Plato had in the Republic proposed to expel florid, languishing, or unduly exciting forms of music not only from the schoolroom, but from life altogether, on the ground of their unwholesome tendency to foster an unstable and morbid character in those who enjoy them.
— from Aristotle by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Taylor

… Half amazed at himself, yet half contented, he sat down mechanically and scribbled a few lines of urgent entreaty to his cousin to come back soon.
— from The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood

Life, and a new scene of things, were now opening before her—she was got into a fairy land of uncertain existence.
— from The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb