"There's nothing that I can say to you, Katy," I say. "Help me," she sobs, seizing my hand and kissing it.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

H2 anchor CHAPTER VIII—IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen’s boats, he hurls himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of the laws of modesty and of the police.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"If I went into Kenge's office," said Richard, "and if I were placed under articles to Kenge, I should have my eye on the—hum!—the forbidden ground—and should be able to study it, and master it, and to satisfy myself that it was not neglected and was being properly conducted.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I know I should have, mistress.
— from Six Plays by Darwin, Florence Henrietta Fisher, Lady

If she disapproved of her brother’s extraordinary friends and thought them an impossible people, why, then, I knew I should have misgivings of them, too; and I wanted to believe in them, not only on Severnius’ account, but because they presented a curious study in psychology.
— from Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance by Ella Merchant

Something important she certainly had forgotten; she knew it, searching her mind, while Letty furtively watched her in silence, gloved hands clasped in her lap.
— from Ailsa Paige: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Other promises, less easily kept, I should have made under protest.
— from Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum

The king immediately sent his most trusted councillors Yi Hang-bok and Yi Chung-gwi to Nanking with the following memorable reply to the charges which had been preferred: “These charges which have been made against me are very grave and if they are true I deserve death.
— from The History of Korea (vol. 2 of 2) by Homer B. (Homer Bezaleel) Hulbert

Do you know if she had much money?"
— from Nelson the Newsboy; Or, Afloat in New York by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Now, wherein we want desert were a thank-worthy labour to express: but if I knew, I should have mended myself.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

I knew I should have my revenge on both of you, and I’ve had it.
— from Lucian the dreamer by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

"Do you know if she had money?"
— from Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss