Loving you I should never have married Mary."
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

I say not that any evil is worshipful, but I say the sufferance of our Lord God is worshipful: whereby His Goodness shall be known, without end, in His marvellous meekness and mildness, by the working of mercy and grace.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

I saw nothing beyond what had been stated in the “Gazette des Tribunaux.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

As, however, the mother would not stop crying, it came one night, in the little white shroud in which it had been laid in its coffin, and with its wreath of flowers round its head, and stood on the bed at her feet, and said, "Oh, mother, do stop crying, or I shall never fall asleep in my coffin, for my shroud will not dry because of all thy tears, which fall upon it."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I speak no more.
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

I came to myself; I said nothing.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

No, if I can’t get along without whipping I shall not try to teach school.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And now, among the swaying crowds rose a hum that grew and grew, while ever and anon the horn rang out, fiercely winded—and ever it sounded nearer: until, of a sudden, out from the trees afar, two horsemen galloped, their harness bright in the sunshine, helm and lance-point twinkling, who, spurring knee and knee, thundered over the ling; while every tongue grew hushed, and every eye turned to mark their swift career.
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol

“I have, it is true, rendered life unbearable to an angelic spirit if she has to pass it in the world; but I trust I shall not die until I place her in security, safe from coldness, indifference, and hatred—” “Oh, godfather—I beg of you—say no more.
— from Ursula by Honoré de Balzac

I shall not think that even you could desire me to choose so dull a way of life.
— from The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns

Now they are travellers in the jungle of wild Africa; now they come upon a crocodile; now they hear close by the roar of a lion; now they discern traces of savages; now they go into hiding; now they discover a great inland sea; now they build a hut and live upon a desert island.
— from The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant

Cur ergo non possum mobilitatem illi formæ suæ concedere, magisque quod totus labatur mundus, cujus finis ignoratur scirique nequit, et quæ apparent in cœlo, perinde se habere ac si ..."
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

Their names is always in this same paper; they are every day getting people off out of all kinds of scrapes—they're the chaps I should nat'rally go to if I anyhow got wrong—ahem!"
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren