Look up ninety feet, and see the great torrent pour over the brink.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

Let us not fall a second time into the snare, that they have set for our confidence, for our credulity.
— from Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

But he had not complained of this injury until now ; for Abimelech said to him, "I wot not who has done this thing; neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to-day."
— from The Patriarchs Being Meditations upon Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Job; The Canticles, Heaven and Earth. by J. G. (John Gifford) Bellett

"Wheat will go down again, and I do not know that I am grateful to Courthorne." Dane dare urge nothing further, and spent the rest of that day wandering up and down the city, in a state of blissful content, with Alfreton and Winston.
— from Winston of the Prairie by Harold Bindloss