Of late you've been going upstairs to your room early every evening, and yesterday you did not come down at all, and so perhaps you don't know how carefully he has begun to lock himself in at night, and even if Grigory Vassilyevitch comes to the door he won't open to him till he hears his voice.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[66] los trabajos ya realizados en el San Juan, por el lado del Atlántico.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"I am much obliged to you," replied Emma, embarrassed between her fear lest she should be supposed intruding on her hostess, and her extreme dislike of encouraging any appearance of intimacy with Mr. Musgrove; "but I do not think it is in the least degree necessary that I should give you the trouble.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

Undoubtedly a spirit of rebellion existed; no doubt the old ecclesiastical law, condemning heretics to death, was still in force, and the Reformation could not in one or two years reform every error; and further, there is no question that the Romish states would have accused the Protestant states of encouraging disorder if they had not punished these enthusiasts; but these considerations may explain, although they cannot justify, the severity of the magistrates.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

Ef you is a good gal, I'll treat you right, en ef you doan behabe yo'se'f,—w'y, w'at e'se happens'll be yo' own fault.'
— from The Conjure Woman by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

He knows where you reside, and has ascertained that you return every evening from the theatre in a hackney cab to within a short distance of your abode.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

After that there were no more houses till you reached Exboro', excepting a few scattered farms a mile or two away at Braley Brook.
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 by Various