"But there are no deer here now," said the Wheat; "they have been gone a long, long time; though I think your papa has one of their antlers," "Now, how did you know that?" said Guido; "you have never been to our house, and you cannot see in from here because the fir copse is in the way; how do you find out these things?"
— from The Open Air by Richard Jefferies

After the feast, the young people hurried out of the pah towards a post stuck in the ground, on one side of a bank, with ropes hanging from the top; each one seized a rope, and began running round and round, now up, now down the bank, till their feet were lifted off the ground, much in the way English boys amuse themselves in a gymnasium.
— from Waihoura, the Maori Girl by William Henry Giles Kingston

The Ynca pushed him on one side, upon which Gomez Perez hit him such a blow on the head with a ball that he fell dead.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

'I suppose—excuse me if the question seems impertinent, but I imagine that you paid Hope out of your own purse?'
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey

I don't know nothin' exceptin' that yer paw had one of his spells,"—inebriety was always thus decorously cloaked in Lysander's domestic conversation,—"an' went off up the cañon that mornin' r'arin' mad about the spring.
— from Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham