I don’t know whether you have observed it, dear auntie, but I never enter this summer house with you, but it becomes painfully hard at once; to be sure you give me such exquisite pleasure in relieving me that I could wish to have constant hardnesses as long as you were near to calm them.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

King Canute took as hostages from all lendermen and great bondes in Norway either their sons, brothers, or other near connections, or the men who were dearest to them and appeared to him most suitable; by which he, as before observed, secured their fidelity to him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

This terminology is suggested by Meinong, but is not exactly the same as his. (2) We must distinguish between believing and what is believed.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

but I never expected to see him again on this earth."
— from The Young Trail Hunters Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

Whether by that time the complication will not take wider limits and embrace Servia and the Balkans, is not easy to see.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

Nevertheless, he cannot allow himself time to dream long with impunity; his reserve of smoked beef is nearly exhausted; to save it, he has again resorted to the shell-fish, which his stomach loathes; to the sea-crabs, of which he is tired; he needs other nourishment to restore his strength.
— from The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe by M. Xavier

I knowed all the time I was walkin' towards the crick that it was goin' to be a bad business, but I never expected to see nothin' as looked like Mr. Dill's horse, 'n' I never again shall hope to see nothin' as 'll look like Mr. Dill's looks as he looked at the horse.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs by Anne Warner

My brain is not equal to seeing clearly into these dark intrigues—perverse, ignoble, infamous!
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

[Footnote 3: This proposal is in the highest ingenuous spirit of the absurd wilfulness of passion, thinking that every thing is to give way before it, not excepting the same identical wishes in other people.]
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

The plump person on the opposite seat, who had been shaking her head violently all this time here threatened to burst if not encouraged to speak.
— from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

"But I never expected to see youse tony folks again."
— from Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays; Or, Rescuing the Runaways by Annie Roe Carr