,” said Long John very sternly, “you never clapped your eyes on that Black—Black Dog before, did you, now?” “Not I, sir,” said Morgan with a salute.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

"La, my dear," laughed Jane, "it looks very suspicious, your not choosing to talk of him.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

Why, when any text of a ballad is, as you admit, merely a representative of parallel and similar traditional versions, should you not compile from those other variants a text which should combine the excellences of each, and give us the cream?
— from Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Frank Sidgwick

he cried, "they've been before us" 51 "Now, Morgan," said Long John, very sternly, "you never clapped your eyes on that Black Dog before, did you, now?"
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Page 57 "Now, Morgan," said Long John, very sternly, "you never clapped your eyes on that Black Dog before, did you, now?"
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Now, Morgan," said Long John, very sternly, "you never clapped your eyes on that Black—Black Dog before, did you, now?"
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson