And it is terrible for us both that you should not understand me to the point, as you say, of not being able to believe me.
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Many of the Indians speak English readily, but with the aid and interpretations of Mr. Ely S. Parker, a young Seneca of no ordinary degree of attainment in both scholarship and general inteligence, and who, with Le Fort, the Onondaga, is well versed in old Iroquois matters, we had no difficulty in conversing with any and all we chose to.
— from Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Elias Johnson

he cried, stamping about; "a coronet on my young lord's pinafore, and you stupid oafs never told me!"
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

When you camp in the wilderness at night, the rabbit will come out of his form in the ferns to pull at your shoe, or nibble a hole in the salt bag, while you sleep.
— from Ways of Wood Folk by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The same project as yours spiritualism' or 'naturalism,' in all its essential features, has been often tried before, and found wanting; that is, of guaranteeing to man a sufficient and infallible internal oracle, independent of all aid from external revelation, and of proving that he has, in effect, possessed and enjoyed it always; only that, by a slight inadvertence (I suppose), he did not know it.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers