And then it made me twenty times more wretched, to know how unselfishly mindful she was of me, and how selfishly mindful I was of myself.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Krapp has unearthed many similar examples from the Restoration dramatists.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Mort was in the class ahead of me, and I never knew him until my sophomore year.
— from The Spirit of the School by Ralph Henry Barbour

His voice when he spoke my name—the tremor in it—oh, I thought my heart was breaking in my bosom, and that I must inevitably lose consciousness.—"You will never know," he said—"never know how utterly my soul is yours."
— from The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio

The thought of Miss Paget suddenly jumped into my head, and the wish that, somehow, I had kept her up my sleeve as a last resort, in case she really were in earnest about her offer.
— from The Motor Maid by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The mater had been her crossest, and Bicky her silentest, and the bill, discussed in French, a disgusting and superfluous language, the acquirement of which Kingsmead had used much skill in evading, lay on the table.
— from The Halo by Bettina Von Hutten

Raffles laid a kindly hand upon my shoulder.
— from A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

The king himself urged Mena's suit, for he loves him as his own son, and when I represented your prior claim he commanded;—and who may resist the commands of the sovereign of two worlds, the Son of Ra?
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 04 by Georg Ebers