My Melissa met me to ask where I had been so late, and said, 'Had you only come sooner you might have helped us, for a wolf came to the farm and worried our cattle; but he had not the best of the joke, for all he escaped, as our servant ran a lance through his neck.'
— from Human Animals by Frank Hamel

‘Mr. Symes,’ says he, ‘daown in my cabin in the starboard locker aft,’ says he, ‘you’ll find some prime Havana seegars, and the best o’ Lawrence’s aould Medford New England rum,’ says he.
— from Swept Out to Sea Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster

I have seen it before though,' said Lucy, 'and so have you.
— from The Magic City by E. (Edith) Nesbit

“We worship Obedience, the blessed, Who, though so lofty and so high, yea, so stately, Yet stoops to Mazda’s creatures, even to the girdle....
— from Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Armstrong) Reed

Dear Manning,—I have forborne writing so long (and so have you, for the matter of that), until I am almost ashamed either to write or to forbear any longer.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

At length a column of white spray lifted, a scant hundred yards astern of the other sloop.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

Twyning, who was on intimate terms with Mr. Bright, had given a short laugh and said, "Hullo, you seem to have been thinking a lot about the fair Effie!"
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson