[Pg 83] Wood wasn't no problem den, and it ain't no problem yet out in de lower Keys.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

The cause of a hundred you have already defeated because I pardoned you once; I dare not risk sparing you again.
— from The Vinland Champions by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

Mr. Verdant Green was afterwards taken alternately by Charles Larkyns and Mr. Bouncer in their pair-oar; so that, by the end of the term, he at any rate knew more of boating than to accept as one of its fundamental rules, "put your oar in deep, and bring it out with a jerk."
— from The Further Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Under-Graduate Being a Continuation of "The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman" by Cuthbert Bede

If you cut me to pieces, as when you delivered me to the prefect, you ordered, I do not communicate with the Church of Constantinople.
— from Peter's Rock in Mohammed's Flood, from St. Gregory the Great to St. Leo III by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

When he went to Chelmsford to be present at Captain Moir's execution, he engaged a bed at the Three Cups inn; on returning thither in the evening the servants rushed out of his sight, or stared suspiciously at him, he knew not why, till at length the landlady, keeping some yards distant from him, said in tremulous accents, "We cannot give you a bed here; when I promised you one, I did not know the house was full."
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

A pickerel of three pounds or more will take in all three hooks at the first snap; and, as he closes his mouth tightly and starts for the bottom, strike quickly, but not too hard, and let the boatman put you out into deep water at once, where you are safe from the strong roots of the yellow lily.
— from Woodcraft and Camping by George Washington Sears

every philosophical youth of inquiring disposition will naturally ask.
— from Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Then they won’t put you out, I dare say.”
— from The Motor Boys in the Army; or, Ned, Bob and Jerry as Volunteers by Clarence Young

So while it's a downright crime not to put you on immediate display in a place like this, we won't take the chance."
— from Legacy by James H. Schmitz