Brown said she was sure no gentleman could set eyes on me without falling in love that minute; and so I may be allowed to be a little vain.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Pitt's success rendered the Rector's family furious, and Mrs. Bute regretted more (though she confessed less) than ever her monstrous fault in so insulting Miss Briggs, and in being so haughty and parsimonious to Bowls and Firkin, that she had not a single person left in Miss Crawley's household to give her information of what took place there.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

But Aladdin refused, saying, "I must build a palace fit for her," and took his leave.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

He said it must be all right if we boiled the water.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Friedrich's puritanical zeal joins cause with the parents' hatred; he fears the worst, and sees no way of escape save through mercy, provided his sister Isabella may be able, by her entreaties, to melt the Regent's hard heart.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Still, it must be admitted that, if not infallible, public sentiment is not to be despised, particularly if it survive great crises and the experience of events.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

"I should like to see Rome," she said; "it must be a lovely city, or so many foreigners would not be constantly arriving there.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The Farmer laughed aloud and said, “It may be all as you say, I only know this: I have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their company.”
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

Pliny, xxxiv. 14, p. 667, mentions ferrum Sericum , which in his time was considered as the best; but still it may be asked, why is the epithet white applied in particular to the Indian iron?
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

How would I even get to see—" "It might be arranged," said Doran in a thoughtful tone.
— from Innocent at Large by Poul Anderson

He says: ‘It must be admitted that if a Church is honest, that which stands in its Confession to its faith.
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

Fred began and Sam ended the story of the "find," and while they were talking Bill turned the specimen over and over, saying when they concluded: "If as good coal as that shows at the surface it must be a big vein."
— from Down the Slope by James Otis

Nay, the present age is not content with its liberal supply of sacred springs, it must be adding new ones of its own!
— from Nature Mysticism by John Edward Mercer

But the sternness is mitigated by a gentler thought.
— from Introduction to the Old Testament by John Edgar McFadyen

But, Secondly, It might be added, that in a higher and more general way of consideration, leaving out the particular nature of creatures, and the particular circumstances in which they are placed, benevolence seems in the strictest sense to include in it all that is good and worthy, all that is good, which we have any distinct particular notion of.
— from Human Nature, and Other Sermons by Joseph Butler

so I may be able to bring you to a sense of what is necessary for your safety.
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott

In the Pervigilium Veneris with its elaborate simplicity— partly a conscious literary artifice, partly a real reversion to the childhood of poetical form—this process is, as it were, laid bare before our eyes; the ringing phrases turn and return, and expand and interlace and fold in, as though set in motion by a strain of music.
— from Latin Literature by J. W. (John William) Mackail