It made an impression, as I could perceive, upon the jury also, but whether any of them believed it or not, I could not tell.
— from A Master Hand: The Story of a Crime by Richard Dallas

Ad ogni Uccello suo Nido è bello,—"To every Bird its own Nest is charming 221 XXIX.
— from The Romance of the Harem by Anna Harriette Leonowens

EVERY BIRD ITS OWN NEST IS CHARMING."
— from The Romance of the Harem by Anna Harriette Leonowens

I love you, Heaven knows, most fervently, Perdita; but whether you have bought it or not, I cannot say.
— from Faithful Margaret: A Novel by Simpson, J. M., Mrs.

Whether the horse falls back intentionally or not I cannot say.
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

But as time went on other places took to manufacturing the sweetmeat so much better, and selling it so much more successfully than "Keeton," as the town was commonly called, could do, that "Keeton" itself had long since retired from the business, and was content to import the delicacy which still bore its own name in consignments of canisters from Manchester or London.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

Whether it was the fresh, sweet smell of the earth that caused him to saunter forth from the Tavern, and to adventure across the road to the foot of the great old oak, or the ripening of spring in his blood, is of no immediate consequence here.
— from Green Fancy by George Barr McCutcheon

Believe it or not, I composed the merry little thing when in great sorrow and poverty, just to warm my heart.
— from A Word, Only a Word — Complete by Georg Ebers

There is little doubt, that if a ship-load of passengers could be suddenly and unexpectedly landed upon the grassy slope of a verdant hillside; many would under momentary impulse of overwhelming pleasure, kiss the dear earth, as Columbus did on landing at San Salvador, if, indeed, extreme joy did not impel them to make themselves ridiculous by imitating old Nebuchadnezzar, in commencing to graze on the herbage!
— from The Youthful Wanderer An Account of a Tour through England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany and the Rhine, Switzerland, Italy, and Egypt, Adapted to the Wants of Young Americans Taking Their First Glimpses at the Old World by George H. Heffner

And when it was born, instead of nurturing it carefully, according to the natural maternal instinct, she was forced from sheer hunger to abandon it in order to find a sufficiency of food for herself.
— from Bible Animals; Being a Description of Every Living Creature Mentioned in the Scripture, from the Ape to the Coral. by J. G. (John George) Wood