I know myself of three plough-horses gone lame in one night, and Hodgson’s cow dying without rhyme or reason, and a child at North-End Farm falling into fits and talking of a dog that runs in and out of the room, but no one else can see it.
— from The Witch by Mary Johnston

Bidding adieu, therefore, to the green little island of Nonnenworth, I made the journey to Brohl, a convenient day's walk of sixteen miles, passing through Oberwinter, Remagen, and Breysig, and the other white and slated villages that enliven the river.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 326, August 9, 1828 by Various

“Good Lord, I ’opes not,” said Jack Ever, in dismay.
— from By Blow and Kiss: The Love Story of a Man with a Bad Name. (Published serially under the title Unstable as Water). by Boyd Cable

he dunno whe'r he gwine lak it or no.
— from Talbot's Angles by Amy Ella Blanchard

Those offences by which we provoke God, lie in our nature; they are no mere casual acts, they belong to our bias and disposition.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay

"We have as much right there as any one else, and I am sure the boys we know will dance with us whether the rest of the girls like it or not.
— from Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School The Record of the Girl Chums in Work and Athletics by Josephine Chase

"The spirit of a hundred races mounts To glorious life in one; New prophet-wands unseal the hidden founts That leap to meet the sun!
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 by Various

It is but a few years back since the last avat[=a]r of the Iroquois' incarnate god lived in Onondaga, N.Y.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

"If Parliament met in November," be continued, "to enact good laws, instead of now coming forward with a Coercion Bill, they would not be under the necessity of making those painful appeals to Parliament."
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

The words and the tone were those of a lover, and Henry was in agony: thereupon Grace laughed it off, “Not bear me out of your sight!” said she.
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade