I still believe that you are mistaken in regard to her.” “Stay, one moment,” said the doctor; “promise me you will not say anything of this, nor attempt to prosecute the matter further till you have consulted with me.”
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

A MOTHER OF MONSTERS I recalled this horrible story, the events of which occurred long ago, and this horrible woman, the other day at a fashionable seaside resort, where I saw on the beach a well-known young, elegant and charming Parisienne, adored and respected by everyone.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

As a result he behaves in a timid and vacillating manner, in my presence, and endeavours to mislead me in regard to himself so that he may regain an ascendancy over me.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Too much is enough,” Mark is reported to have said, when Fisher translated some of the verses, “I would blush to remember any of these stanzas except to tell Krafft-Ebing about them when I get to Vienna.”
— from 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain

He failed besides, confident as he was in his own merits, in respect toward his superiors, with the result that these officials looked upon him scornfully with the corner of the eye.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Mohammed is reported to have said, "No angel enters where a dog is.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Anonymous

“Dr. Channing,” an orthodox minister is reported to have said, “is excluded from the highest form of religious life by the extraordinary rectitude of his character.”
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

Many senior residents at our Universities will, therefore, join me in regretting that his sceptical treatises should be so commonly found in the hands of very young men.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

Her captur in female apparel confooses me in regard to his sex, & you see I speak of him as a her as frekent as otherwise, & I guess he feels so hisself.
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward (HTML edition) by Artemus Ward

And Catherine, whose mere voice was as balm to this man of many impulses, repeated to him, softly in the midnight silence, those noble lines in which Wordsworth has expressed, with the reserve and yet the strength of the great poet, the loftiest yearning of the purest hearts— 'Enough, if something from our hand have power To live and move, and serve the future hour,
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Mlle. de Beaumesnil had left the ballroom deeply distressed and terrified by the discoveries she made in relation to her suitors, discoveries which had been completed by Gerald's frank confession concerning the manner in which an heiress was married off; and feeling quite as much contempt as aversion, now, for her guardian and his family, the young girl realised the necessity of taking some decisive action in the matter, her present relations with the Rochaiguës having become intolerable.
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

At this time there were 18 Portuguese ships of different sizes at that port, and the captain being a gentleman and a brave man, was contented to depart in this manner, to his material injury, rather than hinder so many of his friends and countrymen who were there, and likewise because, the season for going to Western India was now past.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

A compunction seized my mind: I regretted to have sent that piece of noise and folly to disturb a poor man so suffering and weak.
— from A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant