An evil?' 'Ah, yes, Bridget; a runneen sore.
— from The Four Canadian Highwaymen; Or, The Robbers of Markham Swamp by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Collins

When questioned on the subject by Don Cesar in the play, she makes the bitter feud of the brothers her excuse: How could I place your sister here atwixt Your bare and reeking swords?
— from The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas

“It is accomplished,” replied Lionel; “in so far at least that I have promised on my own part, and for Monsieur Auguste de Chatenoeuf in the bargain, to overlook the preparation of his kit as well as my own, and to bring them down in a cabriolet, while you and your brother are rolling smoothly along in the Judge’s venerable coach.”
— from Valerie by Frederick Marryat

" The reasonableness of such a scheme is beyond question, even without the working calculations with which it is accompanied; but, ere these words were spoken, one of the most daring explorers that the world has known had begun to put in practice a yet bolder and rasher scheme of his own.
— from The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation by John M. (John Mackenzie) Bacon

I started to ask you before about Ruby’s sensitivity to being Jewish.
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission