" "May I ask who that person is?" "No, Mr. Dawson," answered Robert, decisively; "I cannot reveal anything more than what I have already told you.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I gave particulars of the great discoveries and rapid developments in connection with electricity, wireless telegraphy, the telephone, Hertzian waves, X and N rays, spectroscopy, colour-photography, and telectrography.
— from To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story by Mark Wicks

r that the play for which every one has a good word is often the play which no one is going to see, while the play which is apparently disliked and run down is crowded every night.
— from The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections by Ellen Terry

Denmark also raised difficulties in connection with the cod-fishing in the northern seas.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

“Oh, well, me boy, oh well,” Pat broke out singing: It’s divil a rap do I care, It’s divil a rap do I care, As long as a drap is left, is left,
— from Wild Roses: A Tale of the Rockies by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs

There are so many discouraging and revolting dogmas in Christianity—" "I am uncertain about a good many things, myself," said Des Hermies, "and yet there are moments when I feel that the obstacles are giving way, that I almost believe.
— from Là-bas by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans