“I never see one of these here gurt men there’s s’much talk about in the peapers, only once, and that was up at Smiffle Show adunnamany years agoo.
— from English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

If you ask my wife, sir, she'll tell you I never stirred out of the house after I came back from taking my little girl to the Zoo."
— from The Hampstead Mystery by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

I never see one of these here animals that was worth a cuss; they plays football an' smokes cigareets at school; then when they're weaned they come off up here an' jump our claims 'cause we can't write a location notice proper.
— from Pardners by Rex Beach

Leetle (diminutive of little): "I never see one of these here gurt men there's s'much talk about in the pêâpers, only once, and that was up at Smiffle Show adunnamany years agoo.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

“The question is now,” said one of the herders, “can we get enough of them in here?
— from Scott Burton on the Range by Edward G. (Edward Gheen) Cheyney

Twice a-day we made a pilgrimage to almost every heathen temple in that province that they call a garden; and there is no sallying out of the house without descending a flight of steps as high as St. Paul's.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

I never see one of these Heroines without ascribing some such cause for her gallantry; and always surmise with what readiness she would part with the appearance in exchange for the reality.
— from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 2 (of 2) Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc. by James Peller Malcolm