“You are bad as he is,” said the old man peevishly; “you are paying too much;” and the tyrannical old Aristides returned him some coin out of the trencher with a most reproachful countenance.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

'Yis, mum,' said the old man placidly, 'ya might 'a' thowt it.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

They say to our manufacturing population, "You would willingly weave clothes for the people of America, and they would gladly sow wheat for you; but we prohibit this intercourse.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

‘Yis, mum,’ said the old man, placidly, ‘ya might ‘a’ thowt it.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

We all agreed that while we were interested in them ourselves, though they were a strange savor to our mental palates, yet we would not read Mrs. Jameson's letter concerning them to the society, nor advise the study of them.
— from The Jamesons by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

You can hardly deny, I suppose, that on my part you have never experienced anything but goodwill, and that, in our house, you have always been received as an intimate friend—nay, almost as a relation.”
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

“Stay,” said the old man, “perhaps you choose me because no more acceptable guide appears at hand.
— from The Hope of the Katzekopfs; or, The Sorrows of Selfishness. A Fairy Tale. by Francis Edward Paget

The vines, as soon as the rains began to descend, threw out blossoms in a profusion unknown before; old gardens which had been unprolific for two or three years began to bear; and accordingly the crop of 1776/1777 considerably surpassed that of many preceding years.
— from The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants by William Marsden