The Rajah critically viewed the hands from which the fingertips were missing, and then, noting the remorseful anguish in the gaze of the other, he cried: "Do you know, I really believe you love music despite yourself!"
— from Melomaniacs by James Huneker

“I don't know,” I replied; “but you surely don't suspect Louis of anything wrong.
— from The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells

“I don’t know,” I replied; “but you may be sure that it is for some good purpose.”
— from The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn

The men from Persia said to members of the court of Macedon, “Our old king is rich ; but your young king is great .”
— from Hero Tales from History by Smith Burnham

Why, Kate, I really believe you are so prejudiced against these people you'd like to turn them out.
— from Snow-Bound at Eagle's by Bret Harte

Two centuries ago, this line of walls was strong, high, guarded and kept in repair, but year by year at last, during a long era of peace, they were suffered to fall into decay, and except for their ruins exist no longer.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

“You are trying, I know,” I reiterated, “but you don’t understand—you can’t, for you have only a woman’s nature.”
— from How to Cook Husbands by Elizabeth Strong Worthington

Virgill was an excellent Poet, and a seruant, of trusty account, to Augustus , whose court and study-imployments would haue said he should haue little knowledge in rurall businesse, yet who hath set downe more excellently the manner of Italian Husbandry then himselfe, being a perfect lanthorne, from whose light both Italie and other countries haue séene to trace into the true path of profit and frugallitie?
— from The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Gervase Markham