Anyway, you’d better make a note of such phrases, and remember them, you know, in case you have to talk.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I write to you, therefore, assuming you likewise to be a sensible person, and requesting that you use your influence with the—to put the most charitable interpretation of his conduct—misguided and foolish young man and show him the preposterous folly of his pretended engagement to my daughter.
— from The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Assume for the moment that they assert truly, still the living material form of the magician is present; and he is the material agency by which, from some constitutional peculiarities, certain strange phenomena are represented to your natural senses.
— from The Haunted and the Haunters; Or, The House and the Brain by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"I'll get the 'Southern Planter' and read to you," said Eugenia.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," in which several people are restored to youth for an hour by a life-elixir, was published before 1837.
— from A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

"But she pawned a ring to you," said Annie; "an old-fashioned gold ring with one big diamond in the middle.
— from Red Rose and Tiger Lily; Or, In a Wider World by L. T. Meade

Assume for a moment that they assert truly, still the living, material form of the magician is present, and he is the material agency by which, from some constitutional peculiarities, certain strange phenomena are represented to your natural senses....
— from The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington