" He replies, "My name, sire, is not difficult to know, and I think thou hast heard my name before.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

And you do love me, Helen?’ said I, not doubting the fact, but wishing to hear it confirmed by her own acknowledgment.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

My own part of this sad family story is now drawing to an end.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

But Socrates is not disposed to quarrel about words, if, as he significantly insinuates, his adversary has changed his mind.
— from The Republic by Plato

And should I not deem the conversation of you and Lysias 'a thing of higher import,' as I may say in the words of Pindar, 'than any business'?
— from Phaedrus by Plato

Holding the Veda to be uncreated and existent from all eternity, it lays special stress on the [ 400 ] proposition that articulate sounds are eternal, and on the consequent doctrine that the connection of a word with its sense is not due to convention, but is by nature inherent in the word itself.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

But shall I not disturb the invalid by my presence and conversation?”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Whenever these emotions or sensations are even slightly felt by us, though they may not at the time lead to any exertion, our whole system is nevertheless disturbed through the force of habit and association.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

“And shall I nail down the lid, sir?” moving his hand as with a hammer.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Even Mr. Birrell crept in unobtrusively to learn how his chief had solved in nine days the problem that had baffled him for as many years.
— from Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 by Various

"Poor thing, she is no doubt taken from the evil to come," she said, devoutly, with a sense that Lady Lilias too, when she grew older, might have found her handsome General "a handful."
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

School facilities must be secured of such amplitude and efficiency as will in fact and not simply in name discount the effects of economic inequalities, and secure to all the wards of the nation equality of equipment for their future careers.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

This provides one of the most frequent and popular trips of the Plymouth pleasure-steamers, and [Pg 25] the picturesque spot, once haunted by smugglers, is now, during the summer months, a lively playground of the excursionist.
— from The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon

At first I was greatly concerned about them—poor fellows—but most of them are married now, so I not do take your words too seriously."
— from The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Beach

Do you marvel that I love Fay Larkin—that she is not dead to me?
— from The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey

“The Arabian simoon is not deadlier than the sandstorm of the Colorado Desert (as the lower half is generally called).
— from Seeing the West: Suggestions for the Westbound Traveller by K. E. M. (Kate Ethel Mary) Dumbell