GEORGE E. RANDOLPH Battery E, 1st Rhode Island, Lieutenant John K. Bucklyn (wounded), Lieutenant Benj.
— from Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI by Abner Doubleday

He assured me that I should get employment readily, but especially cautioned me against drink, as the commandante disliked drunkards, and would not encourage them!
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters

V Judged by the standards of a cit, countrymen, I believe, are generally early risers; but even for a countryman, Anthony, next morning, rose at an unlikely hour.
— from The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland

"The night ridin' fellers, they wuz all a carryin' guns er rifles, but ever' feller wuz proud the gyuards wuz asleep.
— from The Tobacco Tiller: A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley

Mrs Roby bestowed on him a look of admiration, and continued, “Well, as I have said—” She was interrupted at this point by the entrance of an active little girl, with the dirtiest face and sweetest expression imaginable, with garments excessively ragged, blue eyes that sparkled as they looked at you, a mouth that seemed made for kissing, if only it had been clean, and golden hair that would have fallen in clustering curls on her neck, if it had not been allowed to twist itself into something like a yellow door-mat which rendered a bonnet unnecessary.
— from Rivers of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne