"Madam," answered Joseph, "I don't understand your hard words; but I am certain you have no occasion to call me ungrateful, for, so far from intending you any wrong, I have always loved you as well as if you had been my own mother."
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

"Papiol!" said he, " mon ami , Julie is dead!"
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Of the order Caryophyllaceæ our first example is the Ciliated Pearlwort ( Sagina ciliata ), a small, creeping plant, flowering in May and June in dry places.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

"But he ithn't dead," reasoned Master Augustus John; "I don't call any of thoth fellowth immortal till they're dead."
— from Fated to Be Free: A Novel by Jean Ingelow

It was now time, according to Sir Faraday Bond, the medical baronet whose name is so familiar at the foot of bulletins, that Joseph (the poor Golden Goose) should be removed into the purer air of Bournemouth; and for that uncharted wilderness of villas the family now shook off the dust of Bloomsbury; Julia delighted, because at Bournemouth she sometimes made acquaintances; John in despair, for he was a man of city tastes; Joseph indifferent where he was, so long as there was pen and ink and daily papers, and he could avoid martyrdom at the office; Morris himself, perhaps, not displeased to pretermit these visits to the city, and have a quiet time for thought.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07 by Robert Louis Stevenson

And it makes me so happy to find you like this, and it makes it so much more a joy in doing what we have come to talk to you about."
— from The Miracle Man by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

For Mr. Andrew Johnson :— I don't wish to disturb you; are you at home?
— from The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend