I went on to show how absurd was the movement.—This later Pio Valenzuela testified.—He did not tell me that my name was [ 135 ] being used, neither did he suggest that I was its chief, nor anything of that sort.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

Convinced, therefore, that in this respect at all events he had been under no delusion, he left the shop and went on.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I went on to show how absurd was the movement.—This, later, Pio Valenzuela testified.—He did not tell me that my name was being used, neither did he suggest that I was its chief, or anything of that sort.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

Us shoot at birds and sich, but us neber did had no luck at it."
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration

"Perhaps the ignition-switch has to be up, not down," he said.
— from The Third Officer: A Present-day Pirate Story by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

George watched Blodgett's hopes dwindle, for Old Planter didn't buck up, nor did he grow perceptibly worse.
— from The Guarded Heights by Wadsworth Camp

This is the youngest of the various layers of bedrock underlying North Dakota, having been deposited by the last of the prehistoric seas which inundated this area.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

Cose us had us task to do in dem days, but us never didn' have to bother bout huntin no rations en clothes
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

And now I often think of the Boy up North defending his mother from loneliness and foreboding—he is doing his share, G. W." G. W.'s soft, big, brown eyes were fixed upon his Colonel's face.
— from A Little Dusky Hero by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

Forgetting that a real man, Blake (unhappily now dead), had said that the sight of a robin in a cage set all heaven in a rage—totally ignoring that spiritual aspect of the matter—men, when asked for redress, callously weighed the cost of prosecution and the chances of securing a conviction, shrugged their shoulders, and (in Amory’s case) apparently proposed to do nothing at all.
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions