A little elevation will enable you to see over the entire marsh, and many a pond hole have I {127} found in that way that is not known to most of the gunners, and not always to the natives.”
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

Poor Larkin was, of all three, the least endowed with education, yet his letter has been aptly described as "a perfect poem in prose."
— from The Dock and the Scaffold The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the Jacknell by T. D. (Timothy Daniel) Sullivan

But you ain' lookin' ez well ez you oughter, Brer Dan.
— from The Conjure Woman by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

The prysonne first is the kings, and seing his grace by his charters and grauntes hath ioyned the universitie with youe in the use therof, I cannot conceyve what ye meane to denye that whiche his grace hath graunted, and by vertue thereof, they have so long enjoyed, which expressly yo ur baylie Ousburn did bothe to the procurators, and also to the vicechancelors deputie.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

The next morning he went into his father's room, about ten o'clock, looking so " seedy " and haggard that the latter exclaimed— "Why, Edmund, you must have supped after the ball last night.
— from Flora Adair; or, Love Works Wonders. Vol. 2 (of 2) by A. M. Donelan