Nelson was exceedingly indignant at such a statement, and addressed a letter in confutation of it to the Adjutant-General Lindholm; thinking this incumbent on him for the information of the prince, since His Royal Highness had been appealed to as a witness: "Otherwise," said he, "had Commodore Fischer confined himself to his own veracity, I should have treated his official letter with the contempt it deserved, and allowed the world to appreciate
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

I ought to have questioned her just now,” he thought with vexation, “I should have heard everything.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In vain I shewed him, that when winter came, the cold would dissipate the pestilential air, and restore courage to the Greeks.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

An I catch yon scurvy varlet, I swear he shall pay full with usury for that he hath had!" So saying, he strode away toward the forest, talking to himself, while the landlord and his worthy dame and Maken stood looking after him, and laughed when he had fairly gone.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

In the construction of the accusative with the infinitive ( 2175 ), the reflexive is regularly used when the subject of the infinitive refers to the subject of the verb: as, Vārus imperium sē habēre dīxit , Lig.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

'I didn't say very ill,' said her brother, rather sharply.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised?" cried John, rushing to the larder.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Besides, I had no mission, no right, to constitute myself an apostle, and if I had heroically resolved on leaving them as soon as I knew them to be foolish visionaries, I should have shewn myself a misanthrope, the enemy of those worthy men for whom I could procure innocent pleasures, and my own enemy at the same time; because, as a young man, I liked to live well, to enjoy all the pleasures natural to youth and to a good constitution.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Think also of this same trip, which from Hartford to Worchester follows the line of a battle not yet two years old, a battle that has left its traces in ruined villages, in shattered houses.
— from They Shall Not Pass by Frank H. (Frank Herbert) Simonds

If I had been a woman of elevated mind or enlightened views, I should have been thinking of all the human wishes and disappointments that lay beneath my eyes, each one under its own roof and its own retirement.
— from Heart and Cross by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Volume II : see http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42168/42168-h/42168-h.htm Volume III : see http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42169/42169-h/42169-h.htm THE PIT TOWN CORONET: A Family Mystery.
— from The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 1 (of 3) by C. J. (Charles James) Wills

"I couldn't leave, you see," he explained, "and having some small reason to believe that I am persona non grata in this vicinity I sent Higgins.
— from Love Stories by Mary Roberts Rinehart

"If you had come to mass this morning," he proceeded, not without a touch of humor in his voice, "I should have told you in a church what I now tell you in a caffè.
— from The Passport by Richard Bagot

She is very good-looking too, her voice is sweet, her manner quiet, and she certainly treated me kindly.
— from The Secret Cache: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

Her voice is strident, her laugh too much like a giggle, and she has that foolish way of dancing and bobbing like a quill-float with a "minnum" biting the hook below it, which one sees and weeps over sometimes in persons of more pretensions.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"No doubt," replied Beaumont, "'Nancy Lee' and the 'Three Jolly Sailor Boys,' have a breezy ring about them, but this sugar and water sentimentality now so much in vogue is simply horrible--it's a great pity a reaction does not set in, then we would have a more healthy tone."
— from The Man with a Secret: A Novel by Fergus Hume