"She is a strange woman, my lady," said Martha, "and she is not gone yet—mark my words."
— from Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

And the next time he saw Drusilla he said to her, "Emily Bridges is going to be married, and she is not going to marry me."
— from The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey

When I remonstrated with her, in order that I might see, whether she had counted the cost, she said to me: "The Lord Jesus has given His last drop of blood for me, and should I not give Him this 100l.?"
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 1 by George Müller

Rhenum transgressi Gallos expulerint, ac nunc Tungri, tunc Germani vocati sint: ita nationis nomen, non gentis evaluisse paullatim, ut omnes, primum a victore ob metum, mox a seipsis invento nomine Germani vocarentur."
— from Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

I was never what you would call a woman's man, and so I never got to knowing much about them.
— from Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist by John Thomas McIntyre

Mrs. Ellsworthy never cared to know my mother, and she is not going to part my mother's children now.
— from The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade

A national movement arose simultaneously in North Germany, [Pg 59] but the Prussian government dared not head it so long as Russia remained faithful to the French alliance.
— from The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by John Knight Fotheringham

He became interested, and, when I had finished my speech, came over to me and said: "I never gave much attention to this subject.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

She has no plan and no method, and she is not governed.
— from Under the Maples by John Burroughs