"You had your glass on us, did you?"
— from Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

Out of the Day's deceiving light we call, Day that shows man so great and God so small, That hides the stars and magnifies the grass; O is the Darkness too a lying glass, Or, undistracted, do you find truth there?
— from English Poems by Richard Le Gallienne

We'll try a pig, at all events; and while I get one up, do you and William tie the legs of the fowls, and put them into the boat; as for the cow, she cannot be brought on shore, she is still lying down, and, I expect, won't get up again any more; however, I have given her plenty of hay, and if she don't rise, why I will kill her, and we can salt her down."
— from Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat

“I go on up de yavenue an’ meet all de fo’ks.
— from Tar Heel Tales by H. E. C. (Henry Edward Cowan) Bryant

“Go on, Uncle Dick; you tell it now!” demanded Jesse, all excited.
— from The Young Alaskans on the Missouri by Emerson Hough