Of my wanting to carry Jip (who is to go along with us), and Dora’s saying no, that she must carry him, or else he’ll think she don’t like him any more, now she is married, and will break his heart.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

168 SERIES N (For subjoined Notes to this Series see pages 304 - 310 .) LETTER PAGE No. 1.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

The growing child soon notices that the father plays some part in reproduction, but what it is he cannot guess.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

In the sentence which follows it seems necessary to assume a change of subject.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

He wrote to me twice or thrice from F—, but his letters were most provokingly unsatisfactory, dealing in generalities or in trifles that I cared nothing about, or replete with fancies and reflections equally unwelcome to me at the time, saying next to nothing about his sister, and little more about himself.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Although she had no doubts of her own powers to sustain a role indefinitely, she had too much common sense not to recognize the force of Mr. Carter’s arguments.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

If an act of a particular State, though unfriendly to the national government, be generally popular in that State and should not too grossly violate the oaths of the State officers, it is executed immediately and, of course, by means on the spot and depending on the State alone.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

In a note on wonder-working in India, the Rev. J. Sharrock narrates the following incident.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The present Superintendent, Mr. Tyrrell, still nurses the memory of a pair of black eyes he achieved in the management of a “tough” club in Macdougal Street, where the boys came with “billies” and pistols in their hip-pockets and taught him the secret of club management in their own way.
— from The Children of the Poor by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Conversely, the landlord was bound to give similar notice to his tenant; but in case the landlord sold the house, the tenant having no ‘specialty by deed,’ the purchaser was at liberty to eject him at his pleasure.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

Nor would he swear not to rise in arms against the King, but said he knew no king.
— from Viscount Dundee by Louis A. Barbé

The amount to be paid by the city for the construction was $35,000,000 and an additional sum not to exceed $2,750,000 for terminals, station sites, and other purposes.
— from The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment by Interborough Rapid Transit Company

I said nothing to her, however, of the detective's suspicions about Alex.
— from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Anterior ones having a yellow streak next the shoulders, edged with black.
— from Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3 by Dru Drury