Where the remote error lies, I know not; but certainly the ancient fidelity of domestics seems to be totally out of fashion with those gentry at present.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

You are not built upon rough enough lines, I know, not to care at having your poverty sneered at and constantly thrown in your face.
— from Rancho Del Muerto, and Other Stories of Adventure by Various Authors, from "Outing" by Charles King

Details of the system by which they governed are altogether wanting, [907] but after a long term of prosperity this government in Guatemala and Chiapas became weakened and at last practically destroyed; the country was 632 divided among petty chiefs, concerning whose rule even less is known than of that of their predecessors, but who not improbably based their forms of authority on the ideas handed down from Votan.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft