It is with reluctance that I differ with so eminent an authority, but in my judgment (as more elaborately set forth and enforced in my work entitled Hereditary Emotions —lib. II, c. XI) the shrug is a poor foundation upon which to build so important a theory, for previously to the Revolution the gesture was unknown.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

The other fellows suspected me of being some sort of religious sectary, and made good-natured jokes at my expense, saying that even my own father had disowned me, and thereupon would add that they rarely went into the temple of God themselves, and that many of them had not been to confession for ten years.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The whole place was full of the smoke of my own firing, just as my ears seemed to be burst with the noise of the shots.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Oh, we’ll have to pass it up, Ben, just as Mr. Edson said.”
— from The Boys of the Wireless; Or, A Stirring Rescue from the Deep by Frank V. Webster

There need be no 'unwarranted assumption,' or charges without evidence, for members of the liquor party before that assault at Sutton Junction, and more especially since that time, have themselves acted in a way that has estranged some who have been their warm supporters, as they have procured the discharge of Mr. Smith from the employ of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, whom he had served faithfully for fifteen years, and have also threatened the lives of other peaceable citizens, because they chanced to frown upon violence and lawbreaking.
— from The Story of a Dark Plot; Or, Tyranny on the Frontier by A.L.O.C.

Meanwhile the two gang robberies, which were the cause of Sergeant Cassim's little joke at my expense, seemed as far off discovery as ever.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909 by Various

After having testified their joy at my escaping so many dangers, they brought me the best of what they had to eat; and the captain, seeing that I was in rags, was so generous as to give me one of his own suits.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

The trees all clad in icicles, The streams that did not flow; A sudden thought flashed o'er him,— A dream of long ago,— He smote his leathern jerkin, And murmured, "Even so!"
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes