"I got a notion t' run yu ontell yo' ankles gits hot.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux
She now took my arm of her own accord, and said gaily, “This I do, Leo, to recompense you for being so generous as not to revenge yourself by laughing at me in my distress.” “Laugh at you, Francis!
— from Major Frank by A. L. G. (Anna Louisa Geertruida) Bosboom-Toussaint
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