As for the arteries, why, I might puzzle a little about them; but by the time I had taken off three or four legs I should know something about them.
— from Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat

This too, as some forgotten, lost ideal, she knew was also true.
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

One of these cables, nearly three inches in diameter and several hundred feet long, is still kept in a room adjacent to the temple, the others having been destroyed by fire.
— from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan

In my fear lest I should keep my lover waiting I must have arrived fully fifteen minutes before the appointed time.
— from The Darrow Enigma by Melvin L. (Melvin Linwood) Severy

And when one day he wished me dead, I feared Lest I should kill myself; and so that night I made me up a pack of little things He should not grieve for, and took ship for Greece.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 3 by Robert Bridges

These boys would run errands for Lois if she knocked on their wall for help, and when I was most sick and helpless Billy even came in and helped Lois when it was necessary to lift me.
— from Marion: The Story of an Artist's Model by Winnifred Eaton

I had hastily seized my gun, but dared not fire, lest I should kill or wound our guide.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

"I begin to fear now the effects of public favor, lest it should kindle that pride of heart and self-sufficiency which dwells in my own as well as in others' breasts, and which, alas!
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Up till that moment I had not dared to fire, fearing lest I should kill one of my companions.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard