* "Miss Snowe," said Paulina to me (she had now got into the habit of occasionally chatting with me when we were alone in our room at night), "do you know on what day in the week I like Graham best?"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

A hint, therefore, to awaken your sense of this matter, shall suffice; for I would inspire you with repentance, and not drive you to desperation.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Do not believe what is contrary to reason, and never deceive yourself or others.
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

Violet turns a little cold; to come here for a day, to remain all night— "Do you know," says Mrs. Latimer, when she is seated in her sister's carriage,—Mr.
— from Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda M. Douglas

His mental condition, as far as you can tell, is what you would regard or had regarded as normal during your acquaintance with him as his brother?
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

“Dear Sir, “As a flag of truce is daily expected here with an answer to Monsieur Vaudreuil, I sit down to write the moment I am able, in order to have a letter ready, as no doubt you and our friends at Fort Edward are anxious to be informed about Mr. —— and me, whom probably you have reckoned amongst the slain in our unfortunate rencontre [10] of the 13th, concerning which at present I shall not be particular; only to do this justice to those who lost their lives there, and to those who have escaped, to assure you, Sir, that such dispositions were formed by the enemy (who discovered us long before), it was impossible for a party so weak as ours to hope for even a retreat.
— from Rogers' Rock, Lake George, March 13, 1758: A Battle Fought on Snow Shoes by Mary Cochrane Rogers

It is true that you have the advantage of being born a Catholic, and were well instructed in your religion; and no doubt you will accept with caution his statements, particularly that very insidious statement that Jesus lays no claim to divinity in the three Synoptic Gospels, and that these were not written by the apostles themselves, but by Greeks sixty, seventy, or perhaps eighty years after his death.
— from The Lake by George Moore