he mads me; I could eat my very spur leathers for anger!
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

Li venis kun mi, kaj proksime de la pordo kie mi estis lasinta mian valizon staris la sinjorino.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Many voices sounding languid and content rang out in the dusky air, and the people who had come to close their windows and fasten the shutters leaned out instead.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

or in S. H. For the first manuscript version see Letter to Southey, May 6, 1801 .
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It was dictated by the necessity, under which most villages still lay, of being largely self-supporting in the matter of corn supplies, a necessity recognised and crystallised in the customary routine of village husbandry.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

Mrs. Bargrave then to satisfy her importunity was going to fetch a pen and ink; but Mrs. Veal said, ‘Let it alone now, and do it when I am gone; but you must be sure to do it.
— from The Romance of Wills and Testaments by Edgar Vine Hall

"You never did have any reasoning power, Mary Virginia," said Laurence, with brotherly tact.
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

Maud—Miss Vantweekle said, loftily, 'Oh!
— from Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick

He looks at me very strict, like he can't make up his mind whether he'd better run me in for vagromcy or let me go, and then he says, kind of short: "Make it snappy, then.
— from J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Roused by my voice, she looked upon me with a bewildered stare, and then broke out into her habitual chant: “Why did I trust to a pale-faced lover?
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid