I wished to bury it during my whole life in my own bosom, but your brother Maximilian wrested it from me by a violence he repents of now, I am sure.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But I knew your mind all the same, and I thought as you thought—not from any reasons of my own, but because you thought so.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Now my companions have always been children, not because I was a child myself once, but because young things attract me.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Indeed, my first determination was to confine my chagrin totally to my own bosom; but your friendly enquiries have drawn it from me: and now I wish I had made no concealment from the beginning, since I know not how to account for a gravity, which not all my endeavours can entirely hide or repress.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The chief then answers to the knight, Flux me, old buff, but you are right!
— from A Burlesque Translation of Homer by Bridges, Thomas, active 1759-1775

He was a thoroughly hard-working man of business, but yet he was not an economical man.
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

Now therefore, please listen also to the voice of your handmaid, and let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength, when you go on your way.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Later we shall place farms on the minds of boys because youth needs contact with nature.
— from Our Schools in War Time—and After by Arthur D. (Arthur Davis) Dean

Then I came to the Inns of Paris, with the pretty apartment of four pieces up one hundred and seventy-five waxed stairs, the privilege of ringing the bell all day long without influencing anybody’s mind or body but your own, and the not-too-much-for-dinner, considering the price.
— from The Holly-Tree by Charles Dickens