it is not my intention to trouble you with the sequel of our history.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

But my mind was full of our conversation, and as I went on pondering over the matter, I thought that Yusuf might be right in his opinion as to the essence of God, for it seemed evident that the Creator of all beings ought to be perfectly simple; but I thought at the same time how impossible it would be for me, because the Christian religion had made a mistake, to accept the Turkish creed, which might perhaps have just a conception of God, but which caused me to smile when I recollected that the man who had given birth to it had been an arrant imposter.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This defeat happened on the eighth day of the month Dius, [Marchesvan,] in the twelfth year of the reign of Nero.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

As soon as she was awake, I spoke to her thus: “Dearest Therese, all you have told me leaves me no doubt of your love for me, and the consciousness you feel of being the mistress of my heart enhances my love for you to such a degree, that I am ready to do everything to convince you that you were not mistaken in thinking that you had entirely conquered me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I wanted to say to you how sorry I am about the stupid mistake I made in thinking that you were Sir Henry.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Many of you overturned the altars of the gods which had only just been erected, and with difficulty did my indulgent treatment teach you to keep quiet.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Excuse me, I thought that you were your Highness.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Really, the older men were nowadays a thousand times more interesting than the young.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"But what money is this that ye speak of?" Then up spake the Lame man.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

May I trust to your patience, if I refer once more to Mr. Candy
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

After the Mass I teach the young children, and the remainder of the morning is devoted to seeing those who come to consult me on affairs of importance.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The king could not possibly hesitate in declaring his satisfaction; yet, as he was not more inclined than the year before to part with his crown, he told his sons that he was extremely obliged to them for the pains they had taken: and since they had succeeded so well, he wished they would make a second attempt; he therefore begged they would take another year in order to procure a piece of cambric, fine enough to be drawn through the eye of a small needle.
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

When I met her after the service and asked her about her story she said as the most excruciating pain convulsed her body, "I have not been free from pain in twenty years and have scarcely slept a night through all that time," and then, brushing the tears from her eyes, and with an expectant face, she exclaimed, "but if I could tell you all that Jesus Christ has been to me in these twenty years I could thrill you through and through."
— from And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by J. Wilbur (John Wilbur) Chapman

[543] questions that it is now my intention to take your answers into court in a suit which will be brought, and that if you have made answers different from those you make under oath you will be held up to the scorn of the whole American people.
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

Must I then tell you of the misfortune that has overtaken us?"
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

In the meanwhile, I trust to your remonstrances with this wild boy and with the family, for restraining these violent and unseemly jealousies and bursts of passion; and I entreat you to press on him and them their duty in this respect towards God, and towards their master.”
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

And there was a great deal more in that than you would think.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Dick was a full ten minutes in traveling ten yards, and then he saw the dark figure of the warrior crouched low in the bushes.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler