Our son is no doubt singing with the angels before God.’
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But one half of it, that a guest at a tavern has not possession of the plate with which he is served, is no doubt still law,
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

But under ordinary circumstances, if she is "dancing," she must dance with everyone who asks her; if she is "not dancing," she must not make exceptions.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Should I not do so, and you find that the enemy keeps within his main intrenched line, you may cut loose and push for the Danville Road.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Here it is plain that even if the soul is not definitely supposed to issue at death from the finger-tips, yet the ring is conceived to exercise a certain constrictive influence which detains and imprisons the immortal spirit in spite of its efforts to escape from the tabernacle of clay; in short the ring, like the knot, acts as a spiritual fetter.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Any one who hears this, as I have stated it, no doubt supposes that it has reference to images, because they are the works of the hands of men; but he asserts that visible and tangible images are, as it were, only the bodies of the gods, and that there dwell in them certain spirits, which have been invited to come into them, and which have power to inflict harm, or to fulfil the desires of those by whom divine honours and services are rendered to them.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

"On the other hand, should I not do so, pray convey to him my greetings and my regrets."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

So, I noticed, did several of the jury.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

He recited jerks of verse with odd glances at the text: —Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor...
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

In its turn natural courage would sometimes take its place, and then I would be talking myself up to vigorous resolutions; that I would not be taken to be barbarously used by a parcel of merciless wretches in cold blood; that it were much better to have fallen into the hands of the savages, though I were sure they would feast upon me when they had taken me, than those who would perhaps glut their rage upon me by inhuman tortures and barbarities; that in the case of the savages, I always resolved to die fighting to the last gasp, and why should I not do so now?
— from The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

In the Ranger's logbook the man left on shore is named David Smith, and it was thought he remained on shore voluntarily, and that under the name of Freeman, he gave information at several houses that fire had been set to the ships.
— from Diary of Ezra Green, M.D. from November 1, 1777, to September 27, 1778 by Ezra Green

She is now dead: she has left a daughter, a young girl.
— from The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes by Terence

She is not life; she is not death; She is not fear, or joy or grief.
— from Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters

"No, she is not dying; she is only going a little further away—a little further away, every hour.
— from The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia E. Barr

Notwithstanding the proofs (vague though they be), which I have already mentioned to show that we are indebted to the Egyptians for the discovery of this most valuable substance, I nevertheless do so with diffidence, because they are of a hypothetical tendency, and consequently refutable.
— from The History of Salt With Observations on the Geographical Distribution, Geological Formation, and Medicinal and Dietetic Properties by Evan Martlett Boddy

In its turn, natural courage would sometimes take its place; and then I would be talking myself up to vigorous resolution, that I would not be taken to be barbarously used by a parcel of merciless wretches in cold blood; that it was much better to have fallen into the hands of the savages, who were men-eaters, and who, I was sure, would feast upon me, when they had taken me, than by those who would perhaps glut their rage upon me by inhuman tortures and barbarities: that, in the case of the savages, I always resolved to die fighting to the last gasp; and why should I not do so now, seeing it was much more dreadful, to me at least, to think of falling into these men's hands, than ever it was to think of being eaten by men?
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

If wisdom flows from babes and sucklings, why should it not do so from the well of agnostics and mockers?”
— from When the World Shook Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Secondly, if not, did she think herself justified in leaving her father in the summer?
— from The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson