Then I hopens the gate an' goes in, but 'e don't say nothin', only looks insultin' like.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

In spite of all this ill treatment, however, she grew in beauty every day like a flower.
— from Fairy Tales from Many Lands by Katharine Pyle

And all thus gif it be euill done, to gerr a Knycht be misgouernyt, and mysfarne throu euill gouernaunce.
— from The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight by Ramon Llull

There is, indeed, one genus— Lindia (Fig. 58 )—in which these ciliæ are altogether absent, and which, though resembling Macrobiotus in many respects, differs from that genus in being entirely destitute of legs.
— from On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects by Lubbock, John, Sir

Dear ——, The government is becoming every day less secure, and while it holds language directly to the contrary, it very well knows it cannot depend on the attachment of the nation.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

A steamer left today with three hundred prospectors, an’ they’ll be goin’ in bunches every day, now.
— from Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

I’m going in bathing every day, and I can learn all about a sail boat.”
— from The Motor Boys on the Atlantic; or, The Mystery of the Lighthouse by Clarence Young

His genius is, besides, essentially dramatic.
— from William Cobbett: A Biography in Two Volumes, Vol. 2 by Edward Smith

Mr. Barnham doesn't beleeve you took it and the boys chered you like anything and Meg is going to be nice always the tortus is very well and I give it beefstake every day I can get any you would be serprised to see what it can eat.
— from The Family at Misrule by Ethel Sybil Turner

In reviewing the part of the navy in the civil war, we find that it acted like a great iron band, ever drawing closer and closer about the Confederacy, forcing the Southern armies from one point after another, until at last the whole coast was in the hands of the Unionists, and the Confederates were driven into the interior, there to be dealt with by the Northern armies.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot