And when she was gone, and dead, and forgotten, you found for yourself the remedy you could not find for her.
— from Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Bernard Shaw

It is claimed by some that where the factory is within easy reach of the field the cost of growing, gathering and delivering a full yield of tomatoes need not exceed $12 to $18 an acre, while others declare they cannot be grown for less than $40.
— from Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato by W. W. (William Warner) Tracy

You see, not having had much to do with boys, I am not very good at devising amusement for you.
— from One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

So far as the papers were general and descriptive, although forty years of investigation have greatly increased our knowledge and modified our opinions, they are still held in high esteem, and show in numerous places the touch of careful and discreet investigation.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

You are too clever—I shall never get a direct answer from you."
— from Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

‘It is, I must confess, strange that I cannot get a direct answer from you, Mr. Walkinshaw.
— from The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy by John Galt

Old Jan Saunders, with his wife and the fat German who kept the little store at the bottom of the hill, were standing in an excited group at the edge of the roadway and pointing out to the upstanding rocks called the Shark’s Teeth, which showed grim and deadly a few yards out from the shore.
— from The Youngest Sister: A Tale of Manitoba by Bessie Marchant

So he said he'd go along down an' fetch you up, an' I told him he better stop to Ardelia's an' see if you wasn't there.
— from Country Neighbors by Alice Brown