The sea-air has given me, as it does every year, a very unpleasant neuralgia, and I did say something or other about going away so as not to have to be ill for a month.
— from Notre Coeur; or, A Woman's Pastime: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

He is standing up now, and is doing something in the bottom of the boat.
— from The Hoyden by Duchess

"You had better tell us nothing about it, duke," said Madame Max.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

You have used no art, I dare say; no pretty finesse, learned from novels, to inveigle a silly boy to his undoing.'
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith