“It’s natural and right for ’em to talk different from each other, ain’t it?”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Thus it came about that, three days later, I descended from the train at Styles St. Mary, an absurd little station, with no apparent reason for existence, perched up in the midst of green fields and country lanes.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

“If I could catch you alone, you little devil,” he muttered to himself, “I’d shoot you!” Host, hostess and nurse all ran for eau-de-Cologne, and from three sides set themselves to rub the spot affected.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

We brought not a relic from Ephesus!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

At the end of the first six weeks a new and rare face entered the school as a co-teacher.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

The great gates were chained and padlocked; but the lesser one, at the side, was open, and Chandos entered the park where he had played in boyhood, with a bitter feeling at his heart, when he thought that all his efforts might not be able to prevent it passing away from his name and race for ever.
— from A Whim, and Its Consequences Collection of British Authors Vol. CXIV by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

There is a new face on the bed where my pretty baby lay, and that sweet little child is now at rest for ever.
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens

Records of work done show both successes and failures, with no apparent reason for either so far as composition of mortar or quality of workmanship goes.
— from Concrete Construction: Methods and Costs by Halbert Powers Gillette

, 431 ; at Cambridge, 161-162 ; testimony to Archbishop Warham’s kindness, 162-163 ; praise of English ecclesiastics, 163 , note ; amounts received from English friends, 164 ; again leaves England, 165 ; settles at Basle, ibid.
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

You had better take care of yourself, however, for you are getting into a thicket, and neither Sir Robert, who is on your right, nor the Marquis, who is your left-hand neighbour, are remarkable for extra caution, and the Baronet, in particular, is short-sighted.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 374, December, 1846 by Various

I do not intend by this, my dear aunt, to deceive you into an opinion that every thing is already entirely secure; that we are now actually relieved from every degree of danger; but to remove your apprehensions concerning the important events which depend on our military exertions.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr