But, for my part, I have lived here while the trees have grown up and rotted down several times, and no one ever asked me the way to this castle before.
— from Luke Barnicott, and Other Stories by William Howitt

In the evening she took us to her comfortable flat and gave us a real Danish supper and showed us many interesting Esperanto books that she and her husband had collected.
— from A Blind Esperantist's Trip to Finland and Sweden, to Attend the Fourteenth International Esperanto Congress by W. Percy Merrick

De exhorter git up and read de scripture and it 'bout King Neb'kudneezer, when he have a golden image with silver horns, and all de kings and rulers come and bow down 'fore dat image, 'cepting three.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

But, Sir, replied Dr. Slop , not taking notice of my uncle Toby’s opinion, but turning to my father,—they had better govern in other points;——and a father of a family, who wishes its perpetuity, in my opinion, had better exchange this prerogative with them, and give up some other rights in lieu of it.——I know not, quoth my father, answering a little too testily, to be quite dispassionate in what he said,—I know not, quoth he, what we have left to give up, in lieu of who shall bring our children into the world, unless that,—of who shall beget them.———One would almost give up anything, replied Dr. Slop .—I beg your pardon,——answered my uncle Toby .—Sir, replied Dr. Slop , it would astonish you to know what improvements we have made of late years in all branches of obstetrical knowledge, but particularly in that one single point of the safe and expeditious extraction of the fœtus ,——which has received such lights, that, for my part (holding up his hands)
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

"Give us another round, Dave," said Wolf.
— from Johnny Nelson How a one-time pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the famous Bar-20 ranch in the Pecos Valley performed an act of knight-errantry and what came of it by Clarence Edward Mulford