"And Tom Jones was Horace Endicott," Arthur mused, "I knew it of course all along, but I respected your confidence.
— from The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith

For the rest, Raoul, to the grief and amazement of that disciple of Voltaire, my respected father, is one of the very few men I know in our circles who is sincerely religious,—an orthodox Catholic,—and the only man I know who practises the religion he professes; charitable, chaste, benevolent; and no bigot, no intolerant ascetic.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The ideal Christian is an extinct species; and methinks the most pious man I know is old Vincenti yonder, with his solemn reverence for that terrible name which the lips of the adept dare not utter.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 2 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Criticism has said that the artillery was not sufficiently employed to silence the enemy's riflemen, but Lord Methuen alleges that shrapnel does not kill men in kopjes; "it only frightens them, and I intend to get at my enemy."
— from Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

If the mind is kept intent on the Self and not diverted from it, and comes to see the Self in all things, no matter what, then fear should pass away in time.
— from Letters That Have Helped Me by Julia Wharton Lewis Campbell Ver Planck Keightley

Few would have thought that, under so careless and splendid an exterior—the very ideal of bluff, open-hearted good-humour and frankness—there lay a watchful and secret eye, that marked what was going on, without appearing to mark it; kept its own counsel until it was time to strike, and then struck, as suddenly and remorselessly as a beast of prey.
— from Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

No, don’t say I well might, I know I ought not; but I told them I knew all about Lady Peacock, and that you were all old friends, even before he rescued her from the Bristol riots and brought her home to Chantry House; and that only made Mary merrier than ever, and say, “What, another distressed damsel?
— from Chantry House by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

She was mine, so the angels told me, I knew it over there; I heard it once in evening So gentle and so rare.” —Frank Burke.
— from Ruth's Marriage in Mars: A Scientific Novel by Glass, Charles Wilder, Mrs.

Moanalihaikawaokele, ia Kahalaomapuana iloko o ka Halepea.
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

I will make it known if only you will forgive me.
— from Fast as the Wind: A Novel by Nat Gould