Why the last news is, that I don't mean to marry your brother.' 'No?' 'No-o,' shaking her head and her chin.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

"No; I thought it damned silly and sentimental."
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Nevertheless, I thought I detected a fixed design under all this seeming complaisance, and I was on my guard.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I want to cry out that I am poisoned; that new ideas that I did not know before have poisoned the last days of my life, and sting my brain incessantly like mosquitoes.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Whether or not in the further study of the dream we shall hit upon a new item that influences dream distortion, remains to be seen.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Let us now inspect the individual democrat; and first, as in the case of the State, we will trace his antecedents.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Or at least if I do now, I thought I did not then.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In short, in the Arabic tradition of the jackal-man (which is allied to the medieval and universal belief in the were-wolf or loup-garou ) and in the Indian myth of the woman who, possessing an ordinary human form by day, assumes that of a tigress by night, I thought I detected a profound truth.
— from The Green Eyes of Bâst by Sax Rohmer

You must not imagine that in doing so he is at all cruel or severe; but, having a great interest in your future welfare, he wishes, whilst there is yet time, to correct the faults he sees you commit.
— from The Gentleman's Model Letter-writer A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms by Anonymous

No, in that I didn't find any duplication of nebulary configurations with the stuff I had with me.
— from The Galaxy Primes by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

The Headship of Christ over the nations is taught in Divine revelation not less clearly than that over the Church; not less than that, it has been misapprehended and disputed, and often practically denied.
— from The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

Nevertheless, in a country like Crete, where there is no industry, the import duties, which still remain the same, neutralize the advantages arising out of the lowering of the export duties.
— from The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8 by William James Stillman

3 The miraculous event was perpetuated by the whole Teutonic people, “while it was fresh in their memories,” as our honest Saxon asserts; hence to this day we in our Saxon English , and our Teutonic kinsmen and neighbours in their idiom, describe a confusion of idle talk by the term of Babel , now written from our harsh love of supernumerary consonants Babble ; and any such workmen of Babel are still indicated as Babblers .—“A
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

Never imagine that I decry men and exalt my own poor kind.
— from The Day of His Youth by Alice Brown