I’m positive of it, now that you’ve told me who those men really are.
— from Buff: A Collie, and Other Dog-Stories by Albert Payson Terhune

Vane frowned at this, but Carroll continued undeterred: “You want pulling up after the way you have been indulging in a reckless extravagance, which I feel compelled to point out is new to you.
— from The Protector by Harold Bindloss

He panted out,— 'I niver thought you'd ha' kept true to her!'
— from Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 3 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"I was only going on to say that you are a personage of importance; never think you're not.
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The sign is given by drawing your right hand flat, with the palm of it next to your breast, across your breast, from the left to the right side, with some quickness, and dropping it down by your side; the due-guard is given by raising the left arm until that part of it between the elbow and shoulder is perfectly horizontal, and raising the rest of the arm in a vertical position, so that that part of the arm below the elbow, and that part above it, forms a square; this is called the due-guard of a Fellow Craft Mason.
— from The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan