Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us To purify the dialect of the tribe And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.2.

Her occasional pretty and picturesque use of dialect wordsöthose terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

-Hardy,Thomas
  The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch.20.

Most of their discourse was about hunting, in a dialect I understand very little.

-Pepys, Samuel
  Diary entry, 22 Nov.