There’s some men as does right an’ some as does wrong; it always was so, an’ the world’s no worse nor no better, an’ not likely to be.’
— from Demos by George Gissing

And she dropped me a deep reverence, and she answered: " Oui, madame; merci beaucoup, madame; je ne desire pas mieux, madame. "
— from Miss Cayley's Adventures by Grant Allen

And the hundreds of stone-cutters and miners and diggers round about shouted aloud, "Long live King Blessed-Eyes!"
— from In Story-land by Elizabeth Harrison

"I gather from what your uncle says that you have come not to call on an old friend of his, but to look at maps and daily reports and surveys, and find out what a fire insurance company is really like.
— from White Ashes by Alden Charles Noble

Montagu and Dr Rowlands again started, and with difficulty made their way through the storm to the shore opposite the Stack.
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

"Oh, a hurricane, I mean a downright reefer, all square and close-hauled, that is a very different affair; but, after all, this begins to look very like the real article."
— from Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson Or, Adventures of an Emigrant Family Wrecked on an Unknown Coast of the Pacific Ocean by Adrien Paul