It is no great evil, since the country is nearly a desert, and he devotes his leisure to exterminating large wild beasts.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

More recently, the tide has completely turned, until the danger now imminent is that of extravagant if not groundless exultation, so that this Fair would be treated somewhat differently if I were now to write about it.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

Hiz ideas never grasp ennything stronger than Phalon’s last sensashun in perfumery; his whole emotional natur finds its nourishment and counterpart in a plate ov the last Paris fashions, hung up in a taylor’s window.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

"It is not good enough," said the latter.
— from The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola