"They do say, though, that he is not good," said another work-woman.
— from The Quest The authorized translation from the Dutch of De kleine Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

The twelve jurors and four vills say that he is not guilty, -so he is quit."
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

There are men high in the councils of the so-called ‘organized’ Democracy, who while admitting my election, declare that because I supported the electoral ticket nominated by the Lakeview convention, I should be denied even an [Pg 11] opportunity to contest before the Legislature for the office to which I have been elected; and some go so far as to say that, had I not given such support, I would have been legally seated in the gubernatorial chair of Alabama, on the 1st of December, 1892.
— from Politics of Alabama by Joseph C. (Joseph Columbus) Manning

Their history is not generally studied as a whole, because one portion of their territory continued part of Virginia, while the remainder was cut off from North Carolina as the nucleus of a separate State.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

For the man who thinks that he is not giving satisfaction can never be a friend.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was, indeed, a refreshing experience, following so closely on the Pottinger incident; and I veritably believe that, had I not grown slightly dizzy, those brave boys would have kept me revolving there for an hour.
— from Fibble, D.D. by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

You have, my dear boy, your own fortune to make, with better assistance of every kind than I had when the world first (p. 311) opened on me; and I assure you that had I not given some attention to learning (I have often regretted that, from want of opportunity, indifferent health, and some indolence, I did not do all I might have done), my own situation, and the advantages which I may be able to procure for you, would have been very much bounded.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

You also know, that he is now gone, sick, to Georgetown — there, perhaps, to die.
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

It is to obtain this, he is now gliding silently about the decks, and here and there concealing himself in shadow, with the hope of overhearing some speech that will give him explanation of the conspiracy—if conspiracy it be.
— from The Flag of Distress: A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid