“Oh yes, I heerd ’em and seed ’em too; leastwise, I seed their lights.
— from Nic Revel: A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land by George Manville Fenn

“Dr. Munro had a voluminous but confused literature before him when he began his explorations, and he has succeeded in bringing together in this volume such a mass of original matter and of detailed discovery as should enable the least imaginative student to frame a theory....
— from Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age by Joseph Anderson

[95] It is seldom that these obligations are broken; and if the parents give the girl to someone else, the latter is sure to have to undergo a struggle with the former fiancé.
— from The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study by Bronislaw Malinowski

Even from the first, locomotion is difficult: in the morning, the movements of the joint are constrained and stiff; afterwards, however, the patient walks with more ease, though still by very slight exertion the limb is speedily tired, and he is unwilling to use it.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

“‘Love and its Interpretation by Music’—that was the point upon which she expressed the liveliest interest,” said Tom.
— from A Nest of Linnets by Frank Frankfort Moore

Once upon a time there were seven brothers who were all married and each had one child and the brothers arranged to engage a boy to carry the children about; so they sent for a boy and to see if he was strong enough, they made a loaf as big as a door and they told the boy to take it away and eat it; but he was [ 233 ] not strong enough to lift it; so they told him that he could not carry their children.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas