“I didn’t get up at your first word, I didn’t close the conversation, I didn’t go away from you, but have been sitting here ever since submissively answering your questions and … cries, so it seems I have not been lacking in respect to you yet.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have to-day received a letter from Utah, stating that there is apt to be litigation in regard to your property.
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

But—" "Then," he said, not heeding her, "as you and I may not meet again for a long time, and as it cannot do you the least harm to know it, and as you will have no right to feel that I shall be lacking in respect to you, if I say it, I am going to give myself the satisfaction of telling you something I have taken great pains to hide since we first met."
— from Cecilia: A Story of Modern Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

In most cases, where the birds have been late in rearing their young, the hasty collector, and even recorder of facts, may conclude that he has a sure proof of his position.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry

"So far as I know I have not been lacking in respect towards you or any other person present."
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue