This disposition has ever made me employ so much care, use so many precautions, such secrecy in my adventures, that all of them have failed; in a word, my want of success with the women has ever proceeded from having loved them too well.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He was alone and showed no surprise at my coming, saying he had expected me much earlier, as my tour of duty must have ended some time since.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Without being nearly so much surprised as I had expected, my mother entered into it readily; and it was all arranged that night, and my board and lodging during the visit were to be paid for.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I had not heard of such a name as Jesus Christ ; and all the mention of God that had ever met my ears, was in the curses and execrations which fell from the lips of my father, my mother, her acquaintances, and even the little girl who had nursed me.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

They never left each other then; he saw her every minute, morning, evening.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

I assert to you, on the honour of a gentleman, that no such letters have ever met my eye, and that, if such a proposition had been made to me, I care not by whom, I would have struck to the ground the man who offered me such an insult.'
— from A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

“Oh! qui me rendra mon Hélène, Et ma montagne et le grand chêne?
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Everything had escaped my mind except this poor little thing here.
— from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale

He even made many efforts to buy the Virginian and Pennsylvanian domains of the Fairfaxes and the Penns.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

The picture, which I had not seen, much less examined, swam in the twilight and became the most gracious that had ever met my eyes.
— from The Collectors Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments by Frank Jewett Mather

That I dwell so long upon the attention of this Atkinson is only because his death, which happened just before we got to England, affected me so much, that he alone of all the ship's crew has engrossed my mind ever since, though, indeed, the captain and all were singularly kind to me, and strove to make up for my uneasy and unnatural situation.
— from The Blue Jar Story Book by Mary Lamb

One who carried the blackest name along the coasts of the two American continents as a wrecker and smuggler; who in the days before the 113 Civil War had brought cargoes of slaves from Africa, and who had enjoyed more marvelous escapes than any man in the history of piracy, with the exception of Black Jack Morgan?
— from Frontier Boys in Frisco by Wyn Roosevelt