olim ex voto ei hoc munus concessum fuit, ut ne a diis, Danuidis, Geniisve necari posset.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The natives established themselves in houses close at hand and began to rain bullets and cannon-balls into the Residency; and this they kept up, night and day, during four months and a half, the little garrison industriously replying all the time.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

All de white folks had refugeed up North, and dey didn't do nuttin' to us niggers.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

“An' 'imself, too, struck Muldown two pokes, 'efore he lave de hancuffs be pat upon him, at all!” said another of the guardmen; and then turning around, caught a glimpse of poor little Tommy, who had been standing up near a desk, during the scene, nearly “frightened out of his wits.”
— from Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Between us we tracked Delafield all over the West and [Pg 326] into Canada, back and forth, and under nearly a dozen different names.
— from The Delafield Affair by Florence Finch Kelly

Explain that a mother can sit up night and day, day and night, with a sick child!
— from Woman's Endurance by A. D. (August D.) Luckhoff

It will purify the political atmosphere from some of its noxious mists, and I hope it will clear men's minds from unfounded notions and dangerous delusions.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

The appearance of it arose from my reaction against what seemed to me your unduly noisy and demonstrative despair.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

If de chinches was most eatin' de Niggers up, now and den de 'omans was 'lowed to stay to de house to scald evvything and clear 'em out, but de menfolkses had to go on to de field.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

im Stande sind nur eine zu stammeln doch glauben Sie dass eine Frau ohne Fehler sei wenn sie richtig Englisch schreibt und nur an die drei k’s denkt—wir man in Deutschland zu sagen pflegt—Kirche, Kinder und Küche,” she said in a torrent.
— from The Invisible Foe A Story Adapted from the Play by Walter Hackett by Louise Jordan Miln