"I have lost my rod and basket; but it does not much matter, for I am sure I should never have dared to go fishing again!"
— from The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter

By rights, we ought to wait here until the sun comes out and dries off the ropes and blankets, but I don’t believe we’ve got much further to go, not more than six or seven miles anyhow, before we’ll either get to the foot of the mountains or well up on them.”
— from Jack the Young Explorer: A Boy's Experiances in the Unknown Northwest by George Bird Grinnell

I was going to read a book, but it doesn't matter."
— from The Apple of Discord by Earle Ashley Walcott

The name rings a bell, but I don't really remember him.
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Sit here where I can see you, and tell me if you are not dazzled by all this splendor, and if you do not think I ought to be the happiest woman on earth?" "No, dear Helen; it is very rich and beautiful, but it does not dazzle me.
— from May Brooke by Anna Hanson Dorsey

"Ah, well, my little friend, I certainly intend to repent and believe before I die, but there is time enough yet."
— from Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

Put it in a little pot, and put thereon boiling distilled vineger, stirring it lustily with a staffe or rod of iron, and the vineger will charge it selfe with the dissolution of the rust: turne it by inclination, and put therein other vineger, reiterating that so long, that all the aluminosity and tincture of the iron be dissolved, and that nothing remaines but blacke and dead earths which you must cast away: cause the vineger to evaporate very sweetly, and there will remain a powder of Canneale colour, which the chymists call saffron of iron; which is made also by putting of small pieces of iron to calcine in Glasse makers Ovens for the space of three weeks or a month; and they will reduce themselves to a small and impalpable powder, as dough, red as blood, but it doth not dissolve it selfe in strong waters.
— from A Discovrse of Fire and Salt Discovering Many Secret Mysteries as well Philosophicall, as Theologicall by Blaise de Vigenère