You couldn't put the thing better—couldn't put it better, beforehand, you know.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I thought I could put it back before you came home.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Further interrogated where you now were, protested ignorance, but believed you were in Leyden.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

But, on consulting with the First Presidency, and obtaining their consent, and his partner in business, Brigham Young, agreeing to take charge of their affairs in his absence, he was enabled to fulfill his covenant with Heber, and was set apart the same evening to accompany the mission to England.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

“In the meanwhile, Palestrina is besieged by your brothers!” said Stefanello, sharply.
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Nay, said Mr. Welch to him, My lord, you should not lie to God, and to me; for I know you never delivered it, though I warned you to take heed not to undertake it, except you would perform it; but because you have dealt so unfaithfully, remember God shall take from you both estate and honours, and give them to your neighbour in your own time: which accordingly came to pass, for both his estate and honours were in his own time translated to James Stuart, son of captain James, who was indeed a cadet, but not the lineal heir of the family.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

Plates, oval and round dishes, mugs and cups, of the same ware appear in various collections, some with figures in relief, others with paintings in brown, blue, yellow, and green, and others with medallions or mottoes.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young

“I can’t say it in dago talk,” put in Brad; “but you bet your boots, Teresa, that what my pard has promised, we’ll back up.
— from Dick Merriwell Abroad; Or, The Ban of the Terrible Ten by Burt L. Standish

“So he may seem to you and to my poor infatuated boy, but you see those crazed persons are full of strange devices and secrets, as indeed we have already experienced.
— from Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

But I must first tell your Lordships, what, till the proof is brought before you, you will take on credit,—indeed, it is on his credit,—that, when
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

No person is benefited by yielding his mentality to any 375:15 mental despotism or malpractice.
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy

But Kelat, although placed in Baluchistan by your map-makers, is another country altogether, and the unconquered Baluchi owe no allegiance to any nation in the world.”
— from Daughters of Destiny by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum