"Send me up some soup, and let me have pencil and paper."
— from The Great Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

"Oh Lord, chile, I kan't belieb it; fur, if he loves us, why does he make us suffer so, an' let de white folks hab such an easy time?"
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

‘Agnès wishes to aid the bon Dieu , Madame,’ she said, ‘to make us suffer still a little more.’
— from A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The tomb, of hardest stone which masons use, Shone smooth and lucid, and as red as flame.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

"You shall pay the priest and he will marry us," she said at length.
— from Swords Reluctant by Max Pemberton

I can see where this type of construction would have great advantages in the winter, and, at odd times, when a farmer isn't busy he can make up some sections and let them harden, and, whenever he gets enough for a building, he can put them together quickly.
— from Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy Who Made the Old Farm Pay by John Thomas Simpson