"I simply put that forward as the only means I can see of gaining a slight respite.
— from Jack Haydon's Quest by John Finnemore

So in the story of the old man quite infatuated with his son and disconsolate after his death, and in the story of another man eager to rescue his boy, and the old man in Curr's story, who allowed his boy to do anything he liked.
— from The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study by Bronislaw Malinowski

Strings of wagons and troops of men, in constant succession, kept crossing the great plains, anxious as they toiled on, to catch a glimpse of the blue outlines of the mountains, where fortune stood waiting to enrich the hardy adventurers.
— from The Legislative Manual, of the State of Colorado Comprising the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the History of Colorado, Annals of the Legislature, Manual of Customs, Precedents and Forms, Rules of Parliamentary Practice, and the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Colorado. Also, Chronological Table of American History, Lists and Tables for Reference, Biographies, Etc. by Thomas B. Corbett

You are the only man I can speak to about it—if I shall not bore you?’
— from Novel Notes by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

When I am tired of myself in common situations I can get up and walk away; so, in a word, I came in the train, and the train came in a tunnel—for it was almost all one—for five or six hours.
— from The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I) by Henry James

I guess," she smiled at the gruff old doctor, "you're about the only man I can stand the sight of or who would put up with me.
— from Green Valley by Katharine Yirsa Reynolds

"I have never pretended to you or tried to appear better than I am; and you are the only man I can say that to and not lie!" IV The comte de Souvary, towards whom Florence betrayed an inclination that seemed at times to deserve a warmer word, was a French gentleman nearing forty.
— from Love, the Fiddler by Lloyd Osbourne

If they (the Boers) desire to have peace, we are ready; and the only means I can see to bring this about is for the burghers to take this matter into their own hands, and to elect about two or three representatives to meet me on this subject, when I feel assured we could so arrange it that they should not lose the rest of their property and cattle.
— from Through Shot and Flame The Adventures and Experiences of J. D. Kestell Chaplain to President Steyn and General Christian De Wet by J. D. (John Daniel) Kestell