It might have surprised that very careless young gentleman, when he looked up from his verbs which govern the dative, and caught Taffy's eye, could he have seen himself in his halo there.
"The Ship of Stars"
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Almost the last thing their father, an accurate man, said to them as he lay dying, had to do with a misplaced dative.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
Its dative case gives Hale and Heal.
"The Romance of Names"
Ernest Weekley