'You needn't be nervous now, because I am going to be quite grown-up and proper, and not give you any more trouble,' announced Vava, who meant what she said, though she did not always act up to her excellent resolutions, as will be seen.
— from A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends by May Baldwin

And now the chickies are as cold and forlorn as you would feel if you tumbled into a pond and nobody gave you any dry clothes.
— from What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge

Well, then, here is my decision: I'll neither pardon him, nor promise anything, nor give you any answer at all, until I have seen my son.
— from Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part I. Roman by Frank Justus Miller