‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of my Enemy,’ said the Cat, ‘it is I: for you have spoken a word in my praise, and now I can sit within the Cave for always and always and always.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

‘O my Enemy and Wife of my Enemy and Mother of My Enemy,’ said the Cat, ‘it is I, for you have spoken a second word in my praise, and now I can sit by the warm fire at the back of the Cave for always and always and always.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

"My work is perfect, and now I can show it with pride.
— from Honoré de Balzac by Honoré de Balzac

And, John, if love is really the sacred, strong, immortal passion made out by all the poets and novelists, I cannot see, somehow, that putty ought to stand in its light.
— from Fated to Be Free: A Novel by Jean Ingelow

His game-bag, covered with velvet, serves him for a pillow at night; it contains some provision, a small speaking-trumpet, and a couple of cramp-irons to assist him in climbing perpendicular rocks.
— from Austria containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire by Frederic Shoberl

I afterwards visited the “Miraculous Bath,” of which it is asserted that a person in a dying state, who will submit to pass a night in complete solitude on the margin of the basin, will rise in the morning perfectly restored to health, whatever may have been the nature of the disease: but, unfortunately, I could not find any one who had experienced, or even witnessed, a cure of the kind, though many had heard of them in numbers.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

They have read the accounts of football games which American penny-a-line correspondents send to the London papers and nothing I could say would change their convictions.”
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

“I’m not going to pass another night in Camp Surprise!”
— from The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise; Or, The Cave in the Mountains by Margaret Penrose