“O God,” said I, “this was the best man to me and to himself, and now I shrink from him.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 12 by Robert Louis Stevenson

I catch myself pretending an interest in Rother's column, but really actuated by a desire to plant myself in his mind, and to have a notice in his paper about me ... anything that Dad Rother has in his column is copied in all the Kansas papers.
— from Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp

In love I gave myself away to him; And now in love I take myself again.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

The Altrurian was thoughtful a moment, and then he answered: “No, I should not say it was.
— from A Traveler from Altruria: Romance by William Dean Howells

On quitting my new acquaintance, I thought it prudent to change my place of abode for the residue of this day, and removed along the top of the hill that I occupied at least two miles, and concealed myself in a thicket until night, when returning to the road I had left in the morning, and traveling hard all night, I came to a large stream of water just at the break of [Pg 357] day.
— from Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

The meat around the head and neck is decidedly gelatinous.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard

For reasons which we shall give in the tenth chapter we only admit the presence of consciousness in man and the higher animals, not in plants, the lower animals, and the protists; consequently all stimulated movements in the latter must be regarded as reflex—that is, all movements which are not spontaneous , not the outcome of internal causes (impulsive and automatic movements).
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

There is, however, an account of another race in which she participated: “Lady Lade and Mrs Hodges are to have a curricle race at Newmarket, at the next Spring Meeting, and the horses are now in training.
— from Some Eccentrics & a Woman by Lewis Melville

I had raised my voice, so that Raffles might hear me and take heart, and now I raised it again.
— from Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung