The guilty Abigail, who, though an Hungarian, was not inferior, in point of effrontery, to any one of the sisterhood in England, no sooner heard this menace, than she affected an air of affronted innocence, thanked God she had lived in many reputable families, and been trusted with untold gold, but was never before suspected of theft; that the other maid might do as she should think proper, and be mean-spirited enough to let her things be tumbled topsy-turvy and exposed; but, for her own part, if she should be used in that inhuman and disgraceful manner, she would not stay another hour in the house; and in conclusion said, that Mademoiselle had more reason to look sharp after those who enjoyed the greatest share of her favour, than believe their malicious insinuations against innocent people whom they were well known to hate and defame.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“So help me God,” said he, after a brief pause, “I will tell you all
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

In the Prose Edda the Frost Giant Suttung has concealed the sacred juice, and it is kept by the maid Gunlauth in a cavern overgrown with bushes.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

On many a night, too, when the fishermen, with their torches, were out at sea, she heard them relate so many good things about the doings of the young prince, that she was glad she had saved his life when he had been tossed about half-dead on the waves.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Because he believes some ghost stories he's heard about Dan Barry!” “Ghost stories?” echoed Reeve.
— from The Seventh Man by Max Brand

"Thank God!" said Henry, in a low voice, and then added, "well, then, dearest Maria, my mind is made up.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The hottest weather will not make a true Russian refuse cabbage-soup, and my grandfather supped his with a wooden spoon, because silver would have burnt his lips.
— from A Russian Gentleman by S. T. (Sergei Timofeevich) Aksakov

And in the beginning of the season, when they clear out the leavings of last year's pease, beans and seed-corn from the garret, she has a good time with the boys a-dodging the wasps that fly through the garret singing their bass buzz and carrying blobs of mud like boxing-gloves on their feet, and taking such irregular zig-zags their course cannot be foreseen.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 by Various

But grandfather shook his head and said: "You can't tell what a girl may be by the time she's four feet and a half high and is called Katrina.
— from The Book of Stories for the Story-teller by Fanny E. Coe

Gunlod shook her head till her long golden locks fell in confusion over her like a shower of laburnum blossom; but Odin set himself so winningly to coax her that, after she had held out for some long time, she told him at last that he might take one sip from each jar.
— from Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas by E. M. (Ethel Mary) Wilmot-Buxton

The stronger girl supported her sinking spirit and fortified her courage.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts