Dar it will take root en grow; I is tried it, en I know.
— from Darkey Ways in Dixie by Margaret A. (Margaret Alice) Richard

“If the Home Rule Bill,” said Sinn Fein , “be signed, but not brought into immediate operation, by the appointment of a Home Rule Executive Government, Ireland is sold and betrayed.
— from The Evolution of Sinn Fein by Robert Mitchell Henry

The sense of the preciousness and fragility of the universe, the sense of being in the hollow of a hand, is one which the round and rolling earth gives in its most thrilling form.
— from The Defendant by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Lo, the two red eyes glaring in increasing distance, and then the very train itself has gone to bed before we are off!
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens