I formed the finest projects in the world, burned to execute them, left all, renounced everything, departed, fled, and arriving in all the transports of my early youth, found myself once more at her feet.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Dey got ter de place en Brer Rabbit look all 'roun', en den he frown up like he got some mighty bad disap'intment, en he say:— "'You may b'lieve me er not, Mr. Hawk, but we er on de wrong side er de fence.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

“The variable climate of our native land,” as Rowland the Minstrel of Macassar has elegantly expressed it, like a Roman epicure, deprives our nightingales of their tongues, and the melodious denizens of our drawing-rooms of their “sweet voices.”
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 by Various

Ever thicker, thicker, thicker Froze the ice on lake and river, Ever deeper, deeper, deeper Fell the snow o'er all the landscape, Fell the covering snow, and drifted Through the forest, round the village.
— from The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The invention, however, was completely successful, and the Cherokee dialect is now a written language; a result entirely due to the extraordinary genius of Sequoyah.
— from A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson

Cures of severest forms of long standing throat and lung affections reported every day.
— from The Seaside Sibyl; Or Leaves of Destiny: A Fortune Teller in Verse by Anonymous

Yet the Italian Jews adopted a part of his poem into their liturgy, and recited extracts daily.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Letters are received every day from all the regions and it is impossible and impracticable to answer one among ten; yet there is no other mode than to answer the letters which are the most important, for the urgent affairs must be attended to.
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá