But, after having resisted all persuasions, he at last took pity on my musical education, which, as he soon discovered from a fugue which I had brought with me, was exceedingly faulty.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Well, said he, but I'll tell you what has been my last work I have taken it into my consideration, that, at present, my line is almost extinct; and that the chief part of my maternal estate, in case I die without issue, will go to another line, and great part of my personal will fall into such hands, as I shall not care my Pamela should be at the mercy of.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

If you do, not one penny of my money ever goes to you.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Ambition never had power over my mind except during the short intervals in which every other passion left me at liberty; but one of these intervals would have been sufficient to determine me.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This was done on Saturday in the spacious parlors of Mrs. Margaret E. Winchester in Gramercy Place, Mrs. Stanton occupying the chair in the absence of the president, Lucretia Mott.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

It’s been preying on my mind ever since Diana told me.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

From this I concluded that being to all appearance dead I had received the rites of burial; and that deprived of the power of making my existence known, it would be my fate to expire of hunger.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

The power of McCarthy More extended at its greatest reach from Tralee in Kerry to Lismore in Waterford.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

It is probable that portions of many more exist beneath later additions.
— from The Historical Growth of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson

In other and fewer words, it was, as I believe, a part of my medical education.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

[10] of heat: it is situated in a large open plain of many miles extent.
— from Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from India by McGrigor, James, Sir

Fortunately the majority of the officers destined to serve against Spain, (war with that country had just been declared) were leaving every day, and Rion had remained solely on account of the illness of Madame la Duchesse de Berry, M. le Duc d’Orleans thought the shortest plan would be to encourage hope by delay, in forcing Rion to depart, flattering himself that the declaration would be put off much more easily in his absence than in his presence.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

But the inequality of parents and children is the law of our nature, eternal and uncontrolable.—Government is very limited in its power of making men either virtuous or happy; it is only in the infancy of society that it can do any thing considerable; in its maturity it can only direct a few of our outward actions.
— from Four Early Pamphlets by William Godwin

He'd better not! B'leeve me, if he did he gets a piece of my mind, even if I am a poor workin' girl!"
— from Exit Betty by Grace Livingston Hill

But I never knew," he pursued, with a look of appeal to his father, "that a second portrait of my mother existed.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 by Major (John) Richardson