Mind, Babby, dear, I am relying on you not to annoy Mr. Winslow.
— from Shavings: A Novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

But she steadied herself and replied: “Ought you not to be glad if it is not so?
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various

If it's something that affects me, is it kind and right of you not to tell me?"
— from The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance

On each side of the path that led from The Nest to the Boy's Bridge they put a row of young nut trees.
— from The Swiss Family Robinson, Told in Words of One Syllable by Lucy Aikin

BUT there is something yet further, besides particular Constitutions of Air, that is taken Notice of by Physicians, as a general Cause of Maladies of this kind; and that is what is commonly called Contagion or Infection ; by this Term Contagion , is understood a Disease arising from the Contact of such Bodies or Particles as have in them a Power of Altering the due Crasis of a healthful 259.png 253 Person, and inducing still one common Disease; these Particles are generally called by Physical Writers μιασματα, Contagiosa , or Contagij Seminia ; and the Difference of Pestilences arising from these Causes seems much to differ from what have been hitherto taken Notice of, as the former cannot be shunned but by quite leaving the diseased Climate, or by such a Strength, or Turn of Constitution, as resists, or yeilds not to the general Disorder; whereas in this last Case, a Person seems to be equally safe in any Air that is not impregnated with these contagious Effluvia , and the greatest Danger arises from the Nearness to diseased Persons, or whatsoever else is capable of harbouring those mischievous and secret Messengers, as the Poet
— from Loimologia: Or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 With Precautionary Directions Against the Like Contagion by John Quincy