"Of course I know that you will be surprised at what I am going to say, Janetta," began the good lady, with some tossings of the head and flourishings of a handkerchief which rather puzzled Janetta by their demonstrativeness; "and no doubt you will accuse me of want of respect of your father's memory and all that sort of thing; though I'm sure I don't know why, for he married a second time, and I am a young woman still and not without admirers."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Ye lack innocence in your desire: and now do ye defame desiring on that account!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Poor old Jim!" said Lady Dashwood, "and now, dear, you can get back to your book," and she moved away.
— from The New Warden by Ritchie, David G. (David George), Mrs.

And as to moist air, here I am at this present writing in a ship with above forty persons, who have had no other but moist air to breathe for six weeks past; everything we touch is damp, and nothing dries, yet we are all as healthy as we should be on the mountains of Switzerland, whose inhabitants are not more so than those of Bermuda or St. Helena, islands on whose rocks the waves are dashed into millions of particles, which fill the air with damp, but produce no diseases, the moisture being pure, unmixed with the poisonous vapors arising from putrid marshes and stagnant pools, in which many insects die and corrupt the water.
— from Lectures on Ventilation Being a Course Delivered in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia by Lewis W. Leeds

Dipping a net down, you might haul up a wagon load as easily as one.
— from In to the Yukon by William Seymour Edwards

Tobe didn't know what he was doing, and neither did your brothers.
— from The Hills of Refuge: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

She fell suddenly silent, and I saw what I had done, and, no doubt, you will say I should have been ashamed of myself.
— from Sylvia's Marriage: A Novel by Upton Sinclair

And you call that drop a nobbler, do you, in the old country?
— from My Lord Duke by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Bennett troede at vœre den Frivilliges Familie nogen Forbindtlighed skyldig og skrev hjem til den, at naar den yngre Broder maatte gaae med, vilde han, Bennett, bestandig ledsage denne og fölge ham hjem, naar han selv vilde.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

“It is death, as no doubt you are aware.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing

You will be wearing your travelling dress, and no doubt you would prefer it.
— from Anna the Adventuress by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim