In good faith, Friar John, I speak now seriously unto thee, I think it will be my best not to marry.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I give you this caution now, because I shall never speak to you again on the subject.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

[4007] I see now (saith he) there is no creature so contemptible, that will not be revenged.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I may as well tell you that what has suggested my letting her go is some news she brought me—the news that Fawley is doing the same."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

And it seemed to me better to believe Thee to have created no evil (which to me ignorant seemed not some only, but a bodily substance, because I could not conceive of mind unless as a subtile body, and that diffused in definite spaces), than to believe the nature of evil, such as I conceived it, could come from Thee.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

" "I shall not send them away," said Lydgate, the peremptoriness rising again.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I shall now settle up all my affairs of earth, and be ready for whatever may come.... Later.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

"I shall never speak to you about anything again.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

As frequent inflammation of the eyes must be injurious to any animal, and as eyes are certainly not indispensable to animals with subterranean habits, a reduction in their size with the adhesion of the eyelids and growth of fur over them, might in such case be an advantage; and if so, natural selection would constantly aid the effects of disuse.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

“Yes, he spoke to me, but of course, my dear, if you think you would like to go ashore I shall not say anything but that I will be happy to take care of you.”
— from Daireen. Complete by Frank Frankfort Moore

Is she not steady, and bright, and clever?
— from Great Porter Square: A Mystery. v. 3 by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

"Oh I see now," said Houseman: "you apprehend a quarrel between the gentlemen.
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade

I petition your Grace to protect and favor me before his Majesty, for this is a post that needs men, and it costs so much to conduct them here, and there is no other kind of [ 408 ] support for them, except the power and faculty that his Majesty gives in this, so that it might be had here; for since his Majesty entrusts other things to me, he might well entrust this, being assured that I shall not spend one real improperly for his Majesty, nor more than what I may deem advisable.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Yet, perhaps, he might: but I will tell you, gentleman, if I did do so, I should not stand in need of his forbearance.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Spotted Deer’s words kept ringing in his ears: “Perhaps I shall never see you again.”
— from Running Fox by Elmer Russell Gregor

“I shall not soon forget that American surgeon,” he answered softly.
— from Captain Lucy in France by Aline Havard