'Learn a new set, then, every year?' 'Exactly.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

'Learn a new set, then, every year?'
— from Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. by Mark Twain

‘And now,’ said the Emperor, ‘you must all obey your symposiarch, and I am going to tell you each in turn what to do.’
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

Now, what's the first things we must get on shore after we are all landed - a spar and topgallant sail for a tent, a coil or two of rope, a mattress or two for Madam and the children, two axes, hammer and nails, something to eat - yes, and something to cut it with.
— from Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat

"Please believe me when I say that I trust your good faith, but I am not sure that even you understand fully the nature of the adventure you have in mind.
— from Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy

If you or any other man are influenced by feelings of humanity, and are laboring to relieve the sufferings, of the human race, you may find objects enough immediately around you, where you are, in any nonslaveholding State, to engage your, attention, and all your exertions, in that good cause.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

We are not seeking to entrap you in that, for there is no need.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

It is true that the one of these fixes the other; but it requires some amount of explanation and demonstration to make this palpable to the understandings even of the most acute, and I am not sure that even you (yes, put on your best pair of spectacles, you will need them) yet see how impossible it is for us to be ignorant of matter per se , or of anything which is absolutely unknowable.'
— from James Frederick Ferrier by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane

Next time you must understand that you are not supposed to exceed your instructions."
— from Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life by Stewart Edward White