"I think we can rely on your evidence, Mr. Killick," he said.
— from The Orange-Yellow Diamond by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

"Do you want me to lay myself in my grave alive, so that you can round off your estate with Krakowitz?
— from Iolanthe's Wedding by Hermann Sudermann

It was a great worke for them in this weaknes and time of wants; but y e deanger of y e time required it, and both y e continuall rumors of y e fears from y e Indeans hear, espetially y e Narigansets, and also y e hearing of that great massacre in Virginia, made all hands willing to despatch y e same.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

With a childish carelessness they steal into the heart, before it has time to arm itself against their enervating influence; you fancy you are swallowing milk, and are admitting the poison of voluptuousness into the closest recesses of your existence.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

In my anguish I cried, 'Roll on, ye eternal ages!'
— from Woman and Her Saviour in Persia By a Returned Missionary by Thomas Laurie

That this task proved very little worth while, I write with double regret—my own time being of considerable value to our world;—though it should not greatly surprise you, since it is thoroughly evident that 'Isabella' is a hasty, ill-thought-out, unfinished composition.—You will remember my constant reproaches of your excessive carelessness, even when you were directly under my own eye.
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

"So you see, my dear young mistress, that his only chance rests on your evidence, and we must start right away if we are to get there to save him!"
— from An Old Man's Darling by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.