Then folk will not have any talk about us, because I, of course, can do as I like and nobody dare say a word."
— from The Last of Their Race by Annie S. Swan

It is because we are living in the present; and as that present must have had a past, since nothing is lost and nothing disappears, so it will have a future; and that future depends on the present and on the past.
— from An Artist's Letters from Japan by John La Farge

I mock ye not, but come in love And natural duty, sir, to beg your blessing; And for mine uncle—— O. Fos.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

He is very much in love, and no doubt she was pleased and flattered.”
— from Sisters Three by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

She only, and that perpetually, threw out hints to her husband that "that great girl Zóra ought to be married; that she was ashamed of seeing her come to the house (for Zóra did pay a visit sometimes to the Beydur lady, though her castle was an unclean place to her), and that he ought to insist upon her grandfather's settling her in life; and no doubt some worthy man might be found who would gladly marry one so learned and so beautiful."
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 2 of 3) by Meadows Taylor