If Aunt Juley is much better, or if, for a terrible reason, it would be no good my coming down to Swanage, you must not think it odd if I do not come.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

In spite of this release, Frederica still looks unhappy: still fearful, perhaps, of her mother's anger; and though dreading my brother's departure, jealous, it may be, of his staying.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

But Justice, it must be observed, is a mean state not after the same manner as the forementioned virtues, but because it aims at producing the mean, while Injustice occupies both the extremes.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

I believe he aspired to become a member of the Academy of Sciences; to this effect he intended to write a book, and judged I might be of use to him in the undertaking.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Emily, who had always endeavoured to regulate her conduct by the nicest laws, and whose mind was finely sensible, not only of what is just in morals, but of whatever is beautiful in the female character, was shocked by these words; yet, in the next moment, her heart swelled with the consciousness of having deserved praise, instead of censure, and she was proudly silent.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"Well, I will not if you have any dislike—" "By Jove, I must be off now," said Captain Smithson rising.
— from Margaret Capel: A Novel, vol. 3 of 3 by Ellen Wallace

‘And as,’ said Mrs Todgers, ‘as to Mr Jinkins, I must beg of you, if we are to part, to understand that I don’t abet Mr Jinkins by any means.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Rather a poor joke, it must be owned; but the rest laugh, and I laugh too: for as the prudent proverb advises us to "howl with the wolves," so I have rarely been able to refrain from joining in any laughter, even when, as at present, it was at my own expense.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

In regard to the claim of the White Jews to being the only genuine Jews, it may be of interest to record the opinion of a Jew, Rabbi David D’Beth Hithel, who travelled in Cochin in 1832.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

By Jove, I must be off!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 108, March 2nd 1895 by Various

It might be over the eastern bishops; it might be over the two patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch, with the later patriarch of [Pg 305] Jerusalem; it might be over the actual Roman empire; it might be, finally, over the whole Church.
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

H. C. Orton and 36 men who joined in May, being our sole additions.
— from The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman