Take thou the rose, though blighted, Its sweetness is not gone, And like the heart, though slighted, In memory it blooms on.
— from The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

She said to me: "We must see her,—her face expresses her emotions very clearly; she is not good at lying; we shall easily extract her secret, and make her blush for her stratagem."
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

She said to me: “We must see her,—her face expresses her emotions very clearly; she is not good at lying; we shall easily extract her secret, and make her blush for her stratagem.”
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

" "Nothing could be better," said I. "Now, gentlemen and ladies," said the captain, "if you will please to sign your names.
— from A Marriage at Sea by William Clark Russell

Thou being in me, in my deepest me, Through all the time I do not think of thee, Shall I not grow at last so true within As to forget thee and yet never sin?
— from A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald

To the Editers of The Cawcashin: I expect you were very much surprised in not gettin a letter from me last week, but the truth is, I got one partly writ jest as the news of the elecshins in New York an Jersey cum in, an I should have finished it an sent it on ef the Kernel had not been taken down sick so sudden.
— from Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith