My shirt is full of holes, and it is quite likely I shall have to stand all the evening for fear of splitting the knees of my breeches.
— from Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith

Often the translator will have recourse to the repetition of the word, or to the ambiguous 'they,' 'their,' etc.; for fear of spoiling the effect of the sentence by introducing 'it.'
— from Charmides by Plato

Do not you with your refining head go, and, out of excessive friendship, find out something to destroy my system.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

"If it is proposed to strengthen us against the attack I suggest as soon to be made, it seems to me that General Beauregard might with great expedition furnish five or six thousand men for a few days.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

I will detail no more such instances (out of the thousands that exist) for fear of seeming tedious.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen

No, she must remain dumb until Mrs. Wilson gave her the opportunity to speak or publicity offered an excuse for flowers or some token of affection.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

It is easier to repeat incessant formulæ of prayer than persistently to keep one's self unspotted from the world, and it is easier for fat old sinners to paddle about barefoot in the dew at a Kneippe cure than to abandon at once and forever their little darling sins of greediness or indolence.
— from The Secret Life: Being the Book of a Heretic by Elizabeth Bisland

Judged by his cough, Likharyóff had a bass voice, but now either from fear of speaking too loud, or from a needless bashfulness, he spoke in a tenor.
— from The Black Monk, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Horsemen here were accustomed to pause every fifty feet or so to allow their mounts a gulp of air.
— from The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White