We have had canvas-back duck sent us lately, and it really takes one quite home again.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

Before approaching this main object—the exposition of the general character of the New Scientific Universal Language and its relations to existing Tongues—and still in aid of that purpose, I must offer some further comments upon the excerpts already made from 'The Science of Language;' and upon a few other points which remain to be extracted from that work.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Rhinoceros simus has a square upper lip, and in relation to this crops the herbage upon the ground.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

Speak up, Lemois, am I right or wrong?
— from The Arm-Chair at the Inn by Francis Hopkinson Smith