If she has it now, you have given it.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Who should hope, if not you?"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Still he is not young, and I must not conceal from you, my dear, that I think his health is not over-strong.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I have seen him in New York."
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Or if he wishes to die, not because he dislikes life, but that after death he may live better, still he is not yet living as he wishes, but only has the prospect of so living when, through death, he reaches that which he wishes.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Those rights are to do What suits him , if not you !
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 4, 1891 by Various

‘You have not rung for supper—’ ‘He is not yet come, Mrs. Wake.
— from A Changed Man, and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy

"Because," said he, "I number you among my slaves."
— from The Fire-Gods: A Tale of the Congo by Charles Gilson

“What a strange place you have selected here in New York.”
— from Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms by Guido Bruno

I was at the Shaw house in New York on the night of the robbery.”
— from Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone; Or, The Plot Against Uncle Sam by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

Further, the Blackstone occupies a position, with regard to the fashionable life of Chicago, which is not paralleled by any single hotel in New York.
— from Abroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street