La dua pentristo respondis kun rideto, "Jen estas mia pentraĵo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

‘Ha! dost thou know him?’ ‘To my cost; he and his dotard patron, Rhyman Khan, have despoiled me of money— villified my character; but enough, ’tis no affair of thine.
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

"I do," promptly responded Kenneth, at the same time producing his identity papers.
— from The Dispatch-Riders: The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

"Does Peter really know how to shoot," "You'll find out!
— from The Young Engineers in Colorado; Or, At Railroad Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

3 s. 6 d. DOUGLAS, Prof. R. K., Chinese Language and Literature.
— from The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants by Thomas Longueville

He 'low ter hisse'f, 'De pot rack know what gwine up de chimbley, de rafters know who's in de loft, de bed-cord know who und' de bed.
— from The Book of Stories for the Story-teller by Fanny E. Coe

"I do not know; but you must agree that there is a certain moral unsavoriness in the situation in which a man, after committing a wrong, afterwards asks himself or others, 'What can I do?'" "Oh, that was only a façon de parler," replied Krzycki, "for, on the whole, I know perfectly.
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

While preserving to the intellect and to science certain definitely prescribed rights, Kant places in the forefront of his system the moral values; and he does so under the conviction that in living up to the opportunities, in whatever rank of life, of our common heritage, we obtain a truer and deeper insight into ultimate issues than can be acquired through the abstruse subtleties of metaphysical speculation.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith