"By coming back, by proclaiming your existence, you [Pg 244] could have exposed me years ago," said Mr. Harman; "how I dreaded exposure; how little I knew, when it did come, that it would fall lightly in comparison with——" "What?" asked Wilson.
— from How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade

No, certainly not, it was in every sense impossible that you could have expected me: yes, if the devil was in it, I will do you that justice.”
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

Can he ever make you anything but a bastard and an outcast?
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

What eye can harbor evil meeting yours Where lies a grace that turns all ill to virtue?
— from Semiramis, and Other Plays by Olive Tilford Dargan

"This is cool, however!" exclaimed Mr. Yorke.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

If the young prince could have enjoyed many years of training under the wise and virtuous care of his father, he might indeed have become all that was hoped of him.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

“Otra del mismo, en 6 de Mayo, para que des[h]aga el contrato hecho entre Mella y dos hebreos” ibid.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

Before them Colet had employed many years in publicly expounding all the Epistles of St. Paul.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 107, November 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Too much interested in the girl to wish to doubt her, grateful to her for contriving his escape, Max yet found it difficult to reconcile her actions with the honesty her words had caused him to believe in.
— from The Wharf by the Docks: A Novel by Florence Warden

Then suddenly, his tone changed, speaking loudly, clearly, he exclaimed: "Man, you can not rob me of that!
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton