But none I see, not one wee crease and that Reflects some credit on thy husband's care; Six years! and lovers still! was ever known Such foolish pair.
— from The Romance of a Princess: A Comedy; and Other Poems by Amy Redpath Roddick

For surely no one who cordially and truly either hates or despises the world will publish a volume every three months to say so.
— from Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock

Little did the writer of that paragraph dream how soon New Orleans would crouch at the very feet of that same General!
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

The second night out we camped at the Lewelling Wells, where bright and early next morning Stuart overtook us; accompanied by Pat Garrett and Barney Mason.
— from A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Charles A. Siringo

Here, therefore, we have a fund of £7500, to say nothing of what Catesby and the other conspirators may have spent in the early stages of the plot.
— from The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants by Thomas Longueville

Now when it is so nearly over, we can afford to smile at this extraordinary passage, though we must still sigh over the occasion lost.
— from A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson

I suppose no one would care, at the present time, to become a Democritean.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton