'May I ask why so, Mr Aaron?' said Eugene, quite undisturbed in his ease.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“No, truly; but that makes nothing,” said Herr Klesmer, suddenly speaking in an odious German fashion with staccato endings, quite unobservable in him before, and apparently depending on a change of mood, as Irishmen resume their strongest brogue when they are fervid or quarrelsome.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Andolo! ' "Snake, 'e quile up in da chimmerly-corner; 'e hol' 'e bre't' fer lissun; 'e der l'arn-a da sing.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

(Indeed, in favor of New York I must say that in one of the largest of its restaurants I heard a Chopin ballade well played on a good piano—and it was listened to in appreciative silence; event quite unique in my experience.
— from Your United States: Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett

The citizen will first wash his hands in a parochial basin, and then dry them on a parochial towel, after which ritual he will walk in and stand en queue until it comes to be his turn to feast his eye upon some triumph of modern or some miracle of old typography.
— from In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays by Augustine Birrell

Sic per fidem purificatur simul et quietatur, ut iam nec pœnas formidet præ gaudio remissionis peccatorum.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar