True, I thank God, I ever said "you sin," When a man did sin: if I could not say it, I glared it at him; if I could not glare it, I prayed against him; then my part seemed over.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Each plant branches two or three times from the base, and from seven to nine plants grow in each square yard of soil: the produce is small, not above thirty or forty fold.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

In England if you go into educated society, you are likely to meet almost exclusively educated people—or at least people with the stamp of educated manners.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

of corse, you wont be ab?e to apreciate the fulll bauty of the design since i underst and that the retched paper which is going to print this has no redink and no green inq either; so you must £ust immagine that the £'s are red and the &'s are green.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-07-28 by Various

"We'd best be going, I expect," said Yesler at last.
— from Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine

"Comm intercepts and fragmentary records won't give you very good information, especially since your Founders obviously weren't at all fond of the Empire—I'll be glad to help him learn as much as he wants."
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

He’s just about the greenest I ever seen, yet he seems to be an intelligent kind of a chap, too.”
— from How to Be a Detective by James Brady

The candidate is thus addressing the civic constituency: “Gentleman, I earnestly solicit your vote and interest for me and my horse.”
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego