There really is something strong, powerful, bearlike about him, isn’t there?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"'Which that ornery Cape,' says Dan, as he picks the splinters from his mouth after sech exercises, 'would drive me as locoed as a coyote if I don't take refooge in some sech play like that.'
— from Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis

Pater Frater Augustinus Gallutius de Mandulcho, ita canendo: 'D'un' acquisto sacrilego e immondo, Gode di rado il successor secondo, Pero che il primo
— from Notes and Queries, Number 243, June 24, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Among domestic cattle, vast droves of sea-pigs—in our inland nomenclature called porpoises—appear upon its surface when the sea boils, before a storm; and sea-calves, sea-cows, and sea-oxen roam its salt sea pastures.
— from The Merchant Prince of Cornville: A Comedy by Samuel Eberly Gross

It will, therefore, be necessary to publish these results in separate scientific publications; and if I now attempted to give an idea of them, it would necessarily be imperfect, and might easily prove misleading.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

As good roads invite settlement, so population, the great promoter of the value of land, has come in rapidly, and changed the aspect of every farm-house.
— from Ten Acres Enough A practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family by Edmund Morris

A struggle decided that she was better than the Priscilla , and in the cup races in September she proved herself better than the famous English cutter Genesta .
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

Then, as Victoria showed signs of relapsing into silence, she plunged in recklessly; "Jack is bound to be elected.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton