"My Bible lies on the table yonder," said the sick woman one day to Sarah.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But don’t cry, dear; if you lost it through that hole it must be lying on the track, you know, somewhere between us and the beach.”
— from The Lonely Island: The Refuge of the Mutineers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

No doubt, if you have been long on the trail, you will be ready for dinner.”
— from The Lady of North Star by Ottwell Binns

Does an inexperienced girl take a lesson of Pride from her looking-glass?—she may be cured of her foible, by conceiving 10 to be added to the date of the year, or by looking on those ten years older than herself!
— from A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir

It is much the same whether you have to dig into the pyramids of Egypt, or into the catacombs of the buried literature of two thousand years, for the memorials which are to enable you to arrive at the exact truth, at least as to any events of transient interest, however important at the time of their occurrence.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

Naturally, you will be captured, tried, condemned; and you will be led out to take your turn in the ditches.
— from The Honor of the Name by Emile Gaboriau

Here I could not ask you to visit me: what is rest to me would be loss of time to you.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Well, if ye haave, Sir Frederick," returned Lyon, who was a Scotchman, "it'll be just once a year since ye war' born, leaving out the time ye war' in the nursery.
— from The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

For even if I were released—if by living out the ten years of servitude I could claim my freedom, of what use would it be to me?
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant