“Everything has gone wrong since you got to coming here, and I think you are a regular Jonah.
— from Peck's Compendium of Fun Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

But you impressed me favorably when you came here, and I think you are capable of being legitimately successful.
— from The Best Policy by Elliott Flower

Then, feeling that he had been a little indiscreet in thus thinking aloud before the wife of his bosom, who did not enjoy quite all his confidence, he added, "I think you are right, my dear.
— from A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley

When I had gone through it half a dozen times with such added variations and trills as I could command, and had two of the children hopping about in the yard, and the forlorn man tapping his toe to the tune, and a smile on the face of the forlorn woman, I wound up with a rush and then, as if I could hold myself in no longer (and I couldn't either!), I suddenly burst out: Yankee doodle dandy!
— from The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment by David Grayson

“My dear Father Chiniquy,” he added, “I trust you as I trust myself, when I tell you for your own good, a secret which is known to God alone.
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy