How I kept his Secret (and mine) through all the years that have passed from that time to this, and whether my late daughter, Anne, ever really crept into my confidence, and got the keeping of the Secret too—are questions, I dare say, to which you are curious to find an answer.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“It is the most maddening story I ever read,” chimed in Madge decisively, “for it tells you nothing that you want to know, and it makes you want to know so much that you can hardly live for suspense.
— from The Daughters of a Genius by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Mr. Sandys, who cites this curious entry, rightly conjectures it may have included incidental expenses.
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

The petticoat breeches were not ridiculous in themselves—the modern Scotch kilt, which is an extremely picturesque and even reasonable costume, is made upon precisely the same principle; it was the absurd {130} lace ruffles, which hung drooping below the knee, which were worn with the petticoats during the earlier period, and in which Charles II. is figured in Heath's Chronicle, 1662, which made the costume a banality.
— from Chats on Costume by G. Woolliscroft (George Woolliscroft) Rhead

He was now presiding over a suit between the city and the electric railway company, involving many intricate details of electrical engineering and accounting methods.
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

But not in vain, Sir, am I called Hector Ratichon; not in vain have kings and emperors reposed confidence in my valour and my presence of mind.
— from Castles in the Air by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

For in [Pg 11] the total silence and negligence of every regular clerk in Mnemosyne's office, some not–to–be–baffled, Dryasdust, whom our brilliant Tullia would doubtless have hated with instinctive aversion, has succeeded in poking out a certain letter that blabs much.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

One or two, certainly, have wonderful flights of imagination, but these have been highly educated men of extensive reading, &c. In mania, when visions are seen, some person or other whose description has been read by the lunatic, or who has really been observed, appears—or something which the individual has seen depicted, or otherwise been told of, presents itself, or there is a strange jumble of reality and possibility—just as in dreams, comical, grotesque, or horrible combinations are common, and cause us no surprise.
— from Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities in Central and Western Asia, Europe, and Elsewhere, Before the Christian Era. Showing Their Relations to Religious Customs as They Now Exist. by Thomas Inman

This means that a trustee or executor receiving current income must keep a separate bank account as trustee or executor, and of course he should not draw checks on that fund for personal debts.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

It is possible that the class Sporozoa is not a natural entity, but should be replaced by two classes of equal rank, corresponding in most respects with the Telosporidia and Neosporidia.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald