“This is not your old schoolmaster,” observed the stranger, “but another brother of his, who was bred in France, where he learned the profession of a fiddler.
— from Third Reader: The Alexandra Readers by W. A. (William Albert) McIntyre

When the English visitor is told in the United States that "our best people will not take any interest in politics," it is usually in the office of a financier, or at a fashionable dinner table, in New York or some other of the great cities.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

The old woman immediately said, "This is not your own speech; this proceeds from Madame's bad advice; you have not courage enough to think thus for yourself; however, we shall see whether Madame's friendship will be profitable to you or not."
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Superior as it is in some other respects, however, Scotch-Irish Pittsburg, politically, is no better than Irish New York or Scandinavian Minneapolis, and little better than German St. Louis.
— from The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens

"I am very grateful to you for coming to my assistance, for you have all proved this evening that talking is not your only strength," said the planter, as he walked along at the side of the wagon.
— from Brother Against Brother; Or, The War on the Border by Oliver Optic

The old woman immediately said, “This is not your own speech; this proceeds from Madame’s bad advice; you have not courage enough to think thus for yourself; however, we shall see whether Madame’s friendship will be profitable to you or not.”
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

"I want to be kind to you, father," he said after a pause; "who will you trust if not your own son?"
— from The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

"I beseech you, endanger not your life in a quarrel that is not your own," she said.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang