To prevent this calamity, as soon as I was untied, in consequence of the aforesaid decision, I tore a small hole in one of my stockings, into which I dropped six guineas, reserving half a piece and some silver in my pocket, that, finding something, they might not be tempted to make any further inquiry.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I forced myself to endure it as long as I could, but it was too pitiful a sight; so I made frank confession to that effect, and we retired.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

"Very well, I promise an' swear, since I must.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

You have shared in my perils, and should share in my good fortunes.
— from Beric the Briton : a Story of the Roman Invasion by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

She was so radiantly dressed, she looked in the firelight more like a fairy than a woman, being of small and delicate proportions; and she seemed in my eyes so different a person, particularly in respect of the softened expression of her features, from the Mademoiselle de la Vire whom I had known and seen plunged in sloughs and bent to the saddle with fatigue, that I doubted still if I had seen aright, and was as far from enlightenment as before.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

Mr. J. S. Campbell and his lady becoming after some years thoroughly disgusted, abandoned the place, and so swiftly, I many years after, about forty years ago, found a book belonging to the family in the disused dining-room.
— from Old Memories: Amusing and Historical by MacPherson, Daniel, Mrs.

[Pg 37] V If the world is the result of an established plan, as some say, it must be the conception of a hideous monster whose three cardinal principles are Disease, Despair and Death.
— from The Tyranny of God by Joseph Lewis

Nothing but the impossibility of Congress proceeding a single step in my absence presents an insuperable bar.
— from The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas) Randolph

'I just pulled off a little thing out here,' he said, 'that ought to put a small star in my crown.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories by H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight