" "You're so sure of that you keep on looking behind you!" "Come to my dressing-room.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

" "I don't know the gentleman—never heard of him," said the major: for Vavasor had pronounced the name German-fashion, and none of the listeners recognized that of the king of liars; "but you are quite mistaken in the character of the man-eating tiger.
— from Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald

only, I would have had some books with me in my cave, and 'tis uncertayn whether St. Antony had knowledge of letters, beyond y e heaven-taught lesson, 'God is love' ... for methought so much reflection and no action would be too much for a woman's mind to bear—I might goe mad: and I remembered me how the dove that gladly flew away from the ark, gladly flew back, and abode in y e ark till such time as a new home was ready for her.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

If you keep on looking back, you don't know what may happen to you.
— from Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page

There is a phrase noting a curious consciousness he had at this time in a letter to Mr. Norton, written 15 October, 1870: “I wrote Jane yesterday a kind of letter, but you must wait till my ships come in before I can write the real thing.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

“What do you know of little Billy, young man?”
— from Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat

The man seemed a kind of lumbering boy, yet he was a shrewd, keen man in business.
— from The Woman in the Alcove by Jennette Lee

I used to throw that kind of line back yonder, years ago—so it seems.
— from What Outfit, Buddy? by T. Howard (Thomas Howard) Kelly