She makes it a rule to speak deprecatingly of her child, and represents it as the victim of non-existent ailments, so that your evil eye shall not affect it.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

días que el Miércoles Santo [109-8] se confesó e hizo testamento, y expiró el Sábado 30 de Gloria
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

"Do you think, now," said Tiernay, "that you Englishmen enjoy such a scene and such a time as this as much as we Irishmen do?
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

The yeas embraced every Southern Senator except Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina, and William Smith, of South Carolina.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

And as they did this withoute y e knowledg and consente of y e English, (contrary to former agreemente,) so they were resolved to prosecute y e same, notwithstanding any thing y e English said or should doe against them.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

And yet shall earth to y e earth sooner than he woulde."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Finally, at Fontenay my secret was at my tongue's end every day; for I fancied that your eyes expressed something different from friendship.
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

Thank you ever, ever so much."
— from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence