" Sez I, "Josiah Allen, you are not talkin' Bible.
— from Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley
I have something to say to you, and, joking apart, you are not to breathe a word of it to a soul—sh?"
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre
In 568, just a year after Narses, to gratify a personal spite, had invited the hornet swarm of Lombards to cross the Alps, he died in the city he had insulted.
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.
'No,' I cried in the voice of justified anger, 'you are not there—you are here, at the very beginning of the mountain.
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim
"See here, Miss Jenny Ann, you are not to worry over us.
— from Madge Morton's Secret by Amy D. V. Chalmers
In 568, just a year after Narses, to gratify a personal [14] spite, had invited the hornet swarm of Lombards to cross the Alps, he died in the city he had insulted.
— from More Italian Yesterdays by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.
That's the whole thing, Jimps, and you are not to reproach yourself, particularly now when——" She faltered suddenly, and he drew a quick breath that was as if something stabbed him.
— from Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
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