You ought to have become acquainted with the Spanish nation in the time you have been in Spain, and after the events that you have seen.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

But you have said nothing, I trust, to your maidens, of our going.”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, December 1849 by Various

She never imagined that the youth would test her pretty, heartfelt opinions and her glowing faith in the rightness of things in the cold, sceptical light of his logic.
— from In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson

And indeed Miss Margaret was too anxious to put "nothing in her head," to suggest no ideas to the young mind which she believed so innocent, to say a word as to this incident.
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

These remarks will perhaps convey some new information to the young naturalist, embracing as they do the leading facts connected with the wondrous embryotic development of many marine animals.
— from Glimpses of Ocean Life; Or, Rock-Pools and the Lessons they Teach by John Harper

We were, indeed, sometimes so near it, that the yemschik had his legs, now and then, dangling over the brink of a frightful abyss.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan

It was at the end of a second conversation with the native that Adasse imparted some new information to the young aviator.
— from Dave Dashaway Around the World; or, A Young Yankee Aviator Among Many Nations by Roy Rockwood

If you do manage it, the baron will send Herr Court-painter to stare them away with his spectacles——" "No, I think that you underestimate the good people," he answered: "though indolent in the presence of a suspected wrong, they will not be slow to rise against a proved wrong.
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel