You dislike him, and would not hesitate to kill him, and knowing it, he will run from you again through fear of his life.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Butkun kug hurut ang kawáyan, I am going to cut down all the bamboos.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But, Grandmother why do you and Captain—you and Grandfather keep her and Keeler if they are so much trouble?
— from The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Besides, you know,” he added knowingly, “it will teach the varmint manners.”
— from Shireen and her Friends: Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Gordon Stables

You all know her, and know it is not her wont to meddle in politics, or to bawl and bluster.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

"Most of the kittens have a kink in the tail; it varies in position, sometimes in the middle, close to the body, or at the extreme end like a hook."
— from Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Harrison Weir

To be sold by publick Vendue on Tuesday the 16th Currant, two o'Clock Afternoon, at the Three Crane Tavern at Charlestown, a Dwelling House, Potter's Kiln House and Kiln in Wapping Street in Charlestown aforesaid, any Person minding to purchase the same before said Time may inquire of Michael Brigden or Grace Parker.—
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

"Sammet Brothers is fly enough to do anything, Mawruss; but, the way Aaron Kronberg hates Alex Kronberg, if they was to sell Alex a single garment, y'understand, Aaron would never buy from them a dollar's worth more goods so long as he lived."
— from Abe and Mawruss: Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass

I am not idle: I translated yesterday from your volume 3 longish Kæmpe Visers , among which is the 'Death of King Hacon at Kirkwall in Orkney,' after his unsuccessful invasion of Scotland.
— from George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Borrow and His Friends by Clement King Shorter

i ka hanai a Kapukaihaoa, ia Laielohelohe, ua like no a like laua me Laieikawai, no ka mea, ua hanau mahoeia laua."
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

Eben King had a keg in the corner.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery