In crossing the waist I did not meet Captain Nemo: I supposed him to be in the pilot's cage.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

If I had learned the cause of that perhaps most commonplace neglect, I should have lost the unspoken poesy with which I intoxicated myself.
— from Honoré de Balzac by Honoré de Balzac

If I had been in my cell now, I should have been eating my poor breakfast—comfortably!
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon

Mr. Culpepper, noticing it, shook his head waggishly at Mr. Sharp.
— from Ship's Company, the Entire Collection by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Mrs. Campbell: "No; I shall have all.
— from A Likely Story by William Dean Howells

Mrs. Campbell: "No; I shall have the men's, too.
— from A Likely Story by William Dean Howells

"You thought," she said, almost sternly, "that I did not love my child." "No," I said, half untruthfully.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Mr. Caryll nodded in silence, his face drawn with pain.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini