One day there appeared in the best of these sorry journals a long and learned article by a Brazilian purist who, though flattering to the invention and the inventor, asserted that it should be called “Cinephonio” rather than “Kinetophone.”
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

His brothers and sisters are az like him as flakes ov snow, and all the day long, amung the red klover, and beneath the white thorn, he maketh his joy, and leadeth a life arkadian.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

Beautiful girl, I have seen thee move A floating creature of joy and love, As light as a mist on the sunrise gale, Or the buoyant sway of a bridal veil,
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 6, December 1850 by Various

Occasionally the hills receded just a little and left a small stretch of flat country where there were always exceedingly neat-looking huts.
— from A Woman In China by Mary Gaunt

Mythologues of classic purity, in which, as Hurd observes, the soundest moral lessons came recommended by the charm of numbers, were set forth with all the splendour of royalty, while Jones and Lanier, and Lawes and Ferrabosco, lavished all the grace and elegance of their respective arts on the embellishment of the entertainment.
— from Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs, and amusements, superstitions, poetry, and elegant literature of his age by Nathan Drake

"Let Joseph and Lucien and Louis and Jerome and the girls be educated; as for me, I can take care of myself.
— from Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by John Kendrick Bangs

Till the bee comes forth to sip Nectar from the flow'rets lip,— Till the light-winged zephyrs wake Dancing ripples on the lake, And the cloudlets in the height Don their fleecy robes of white;— Then, with graceful Euterpe, Seek the spreading greenwood tree, And with joy, and light, and love, AH around thee and above, Tune thy lyre to praiseful mirth With all happy things of Earth!
— from Poems of the Heart and Home by Yule, J. C., Mrs.

I was never aught save Pipistrello—Pipistrello the wrestler, who jumped and leaped, and lifted an ox from the ground as easily as other men lift a child.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

He jiggled and joggled his arms and legs, and went through such funny antics that Jim and Liza Ann laughed again and again.
— from The Story of a Calico Clown by Laura Lee Hope