Out of these say twenty will endeavour to drown the bitterness of despised love in drink; twenty more will mope away their lives without a wish or attempt to make a mark in he world, because they have no ambition apart from their attachment to you; twenty more—the susceptible person myself possibly among them—will be always draggling after you, getting where they may just see you, doing desperate things.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Well, you answer me dis: Didn’t you tote out de line in de canoe fer to make fas’ to de tow-head?”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Quizás una de las formas más insidiosa de imitación, sea la de la apropiación sin mención del origen de las ideas, de conceptos, de fórmulas, etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

About this time, Fray Juan de Madrid was tried before the tribunal of Toledo; there was much adverse evidence {116} in full detail, and the only defence lay in disabling the witnesses.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

Though I lay so much stress on the omnipotence of divine love, I do not forget that divine wrath must be reckoned with as well.
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio