The impulse to break more glass is natural to youth, and probably still occurs.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The youngest of the children in the group is not too young to remember how their army of tenants was turned out by the health officers because the houses had been condemned as unfit for human beings to live in.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

“I have waited for you with the greatest impatience (not that you were worth it).
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I gave it not to you.
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley

"It would be very delightful indeed," he said, "if it were possible for mademoiselle to go into Norfolk to your brother's house.
— from The Lost Ambassador; Or, The Search For The Missing Delora by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

"I guess I never told you about the Arctic breeds.
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

Guisnes is not taken yet?
— from Queen Mary; and, Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Besides, I guess I never told you, but I'm a regular camera fiend.
— from Dave Dawson in Libya by Robert Sidney Bowen

If your gospel is not that, you have yet to learn the deepest secret of His power.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

"'Melia," said he brokenly, "I guess I never told you in so many words, but it's the truth: if God Almighty was to make me a woman, I'd have her you, not a hair altered.
— from Tiverton Tales by Alice Brown

"Mrs. Howe said I must not call upon the servants, and I could not leave Charley alone to get it; now that you are here, I will go down for some, if you will take Charley."
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

I'm greatly obliged to you, Gammon; I never thought you'd be able to do it yourself.
— from The Town Traveller by George Gissing

I knew it would kill you—and you only guessed; I never told you—oh, no, never, never, never!"
— from The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans by Mary Ashley Townsend