It is for this reason M. de Joinville is not named in my list, although I had for a considerable time frequented his house.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truly, divine justice is not nearly so exacting as human.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Hasn't Marion said some very strange things about it?” “My dear Jack, I need n't tell you that we girls are not always fair in our estimates of each other, even when we think we are,—and it is not always that we want to think so.
— from The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever

On that delightful jaunt I need not dwell, Only to say that all the drive enjoyed.
— from The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Thomas Cowherd

“You quite put my nose out o' joint, you Jack Tier, with 'e lady,” grumbled Josh, the steward de jure, if not now de facto, of the craft, “and I neber see nuttin' like it!
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

Upon your reflecting and steady mind, my dear Julia, I need not inculcate the lessons which may be drawn from this woe-fraught tale; but for the sake of my sex in general, I wish it engraved upon every heart, that virtue alone, independent of the trappings of wealth, the parade of equipage, and the adulation of gallantry, can secure lasting felicity.
— from The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel: Founded on Fact by Hannah Webster Foster

“You quite put my nose out o’ joint, you Jack Tier, with ’e lady,” grumbled Josh, the steward de jure , if not now de facto , of the craft, “and I never see nuttin’ like it!
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 2, February 1847 by Various

What I have already said of his opportunities of personal observation and of dispassionate judgment I need not iterate.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew