En 'taint der laughin' w'at pesters me, nudder,"—relenting a little,—"hit's dish yer ev'lastin' snickle en giggle, giggle en snickle."
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

So even gambling, great evil as it is, sometimes does good, though instances like this are extremely rare.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

12mo, flexible cloth, yellow edges $1.50 The same, extra gilt, gilt edges 2.00 "Mr. Upton has performed a service that can hardly be too highly appreciated, in collecting the plots, music, and the composers of the standard operas, to the number of sixty-four, and bringing them together in one perfectly arranged volume....
— from Education and the Higher Life by John Lancaster Spalding