I am sure I don't know what people must think of us, never going to any of the fashionable places.
— from A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black

It must be remembered, however, that Olympia understood no German, and the ladies around her no Latin.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

instead of which he haunts and tyrannizes over us, neither giving himself nor letting us take from those who would.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04 by of Samosata Lucian

“And as much money as you can; and, I say, the old un never give you a watch, did he?”
— from Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel by George Manville Fenn

Unless you can enter a house without interrupting the inmates in their occupation; unless no glance, no expression asks, What have you come for?
— from Edelweiss: A Story by Berthold Auerbach

"Your Aunt Lavinia, Ollie," said Richard, rising to his feet (this relationship was of the same character as that of Uncle Nathan Gill), "seems to think our manners are retrograding."
— from The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Francis Hopkinson Smith

Great prophets oft extend their just command, Receive the tribute of a foreign land; When in their own ungrateful native ground Few just admiring votaries they found.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 18 Dialogue concerning Women; Characters; Life of Lucian; Letters; Appendix; Index by John Dryden

This was written at the end of January, and, at the beginning of February, we find that our unfortunate Northern guests had landed on a somewhat inhospitable shore, for they had to pay over £50 duty for imported game, and £10 freight from Harwich to London.
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

Led no doubt by his leanings, and taught by old experience in connection with his father’s enterprises in coal-mining, he made a fresh start in life in mining engineering, and was for some time in Wales, where his knowledge of mining, and natural firmness and aptitude as a leader and trained controller of bodies of men, made him a valuable agent for the adventurous companies who are ready to open up new ground.
— from George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

Whereupon, so runs the story, whether true or untrue, Nell gracefully forewent her grant for so good a purpose; and Chelsea Hospital is the British soldier's to this day.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir