So she hastened to remark: “Marcolina is deeply religious all the same, I can assure you, Chevalier.”
— from Casanova's Homecoming by Arthur Schnitzler

“If so be we started tuh walk reg’lar-like, we’d be thar in three minutes I done reckon,” answered Tom Smith.
— from The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie; or, The Strange Secret of Alligator Swamp by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

The waters lifted up the ark, Majestic it did ride Above the swelling, surging waves, Along the rolling tide.
— from The Flood by Anonymous

But it is certain that many of the ancient strata are not littoral deposits, and it will be found that it is by comparison of the faunas of the deeper-water deposits that the geologist correlates the strata of remote regions: where shallow water deposits are formed, the faunas differ markedly in different regions, and these shallow-water forms can only be correlated owing to their occurrence between deeper-water strata.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr