It was a tearful parting, for they had been with us now for eleven days and we were fast friends.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

"So Spider take one iron, he put um nah fiah, en de iron red hot.
— from Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales by Henry W. Ward

Undoubtedly no fancier ever did intentionally make such an attempt.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

16) to express swift circular movements; and Cary quotes a comment upon it to the effect that ' carolæ dicuntur tripudium quoddam quod fit saliendo, ut Napolitani faciunt et dicunt.'
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

Directing his thoughts in this way, the reader may presently conjure up a dim, strange vision of the latter-day face: "Eyes large, lustrous, beautiful, soulful; above them, no longer separated by rugged brow ridges, is the top of the head, a glistening, hairless dome, terete and beautiful; no craggy nose rises to disturb by its unmeaning shadows the symmetry of that calm face, no vestigial ears project; the mouth is a small, perfectly round aperture, toothless and gumless, jawless, unanimal, no futile emotions disturbing its roundness as it lies, like the harvest moon or the evening star, in the wide firmament of face."
— from Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells