Mrs. Foster nodded assent; her heart too full for utterance, nor did she speak again till the carriage drew up before her own door.
— from Elsie's Motherhood by Martha Finley

Je suis prêt à faire une nouvelle demonstration si vous n'êtes pas satisfait. "
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

But there Mr. Saul composed his sermons, and studied his Bible, and followed up, no doubt, some special darling pursuit which his ambition dictated.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

Fern .—According to Wallis the -n in fer-n is the -en in oxen , in other words a plural termination:—"A fere ( filix ) pluraliter fern (verum nunc plerumque fern utroque numero dicitur, sed et in plurali ferns ); nam fere et feres prope obsoleta sunt."
— from A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

"So I married her, an' tuk her to a little house I had fixed up near de stables, an' she clear-starched an' sewed an' broidered an' wukked wid de hand-loom, an' made more pretty things dan I could count.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

—According to Wallis the -n in fer-n is the -en in oxen , in other words, a plural termination:—"A fere ( filix ) pluraliter fern (verum nunc plerumque fern utroque numero dicitur, sed et in plurali ferns ); nam fere et feres prope obsoleta sunt.
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

By degrees the utmost confidence took place between them on every subject but one: Mrs. Stafford never dwelt on the cause, whatever it was, which occasioned her to be so frequently uneasy; nor did she ever complain of being so: but she listened with the warmest interest to the little tale Emmeline had to relate, and told her in return as much of her own history as she thought it necessary for her to know.
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith