Before the waar I’ve had London ladies say to me: ”Ave you ever seen the Bay of Naples, or the Canaries?
— from The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

Just at the point where it was the psychological time to close, he stopped and stood a long instant facing them, and then he asked softly, “Did any man among you ever see the woman to whom he had given a strong man's first passion of love, slowly dying before him?”
— from The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter

'Yet only the other day you were saying what a shame it was that women could not win full academic honours like men; and you even said that they ought to be given titles, in reward for their services to Science, Art and Literature,' said Delicia.
— from The Murder of Delicia by Marie Corelli

You should understand the relationship between your mind and your environment, since they are the two principal factors in your working life.
— from Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton

Speaking of difficulties in learning idioms, he told the story of a German professor who, priding himself on his thorough knowledge of English idioms, said, "We must, as you English say, take ze cow by ze corns."
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

“You will find matches at your elbow,” said the voice, coming dulled, from a further apartment.
— from Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Suppose it true that to both brothers the birthright seemed to secure merely material advantage, yet even so the better part would have been to sacrifice material present for material future.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren