"You removed, or, more plainly, you murdered Lord Lydstone at the instigation of your accomplice—is that so?"
— from The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

I will now write of things of more recent date—something within the recollection of many persons yet living.
— from The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes by Robert Arnold

He gazed at her in confused amazement, and presently said: "What have I done, O Itlza, to merit this remarkable rejection of my proposal?" "You have done nothing, O best of friends.
— from A Prince of Anahuac: A Histori-traditional Story Antedating the Aztec Empire by James A. Porter

But, relying on my publisher, yesterday, for my payments at the month's end, he betrays me in the midst of my torrent of work.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

This was considerably cheaper than the rents of many previous years, when shops were let at 100, 200, and sometimes 600 piastres per month.
— from A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas by Fanny Loviot

I please you because you see, because you know; and then for that very reason of my pleasing you must adapt me to your convenience, you must take me over, as they say.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

Let us talk no more of that, said the baron de Palfoy, you ought to be satisfied I do all for you in my power to do at present:--other opportunities may hereafter arrive in which you may find the continuance of my friendship, and a grateful remembrance of the good office you did me; but to engage me to fulfil my obligations without any reluctance on my part, you must speak to me no more on a theme which I cannot hear without emotions, such as I would by no means give way to.
— from The Fortunate Foundlings Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister, Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs, Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition, In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes. by Eliza Fowler Haywood