The witness, who had entered last, moved slowly and carefully about, and walked up to where he could see the figure of Edith faintly defined against the white sheen of the clergyman's surplice.
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille

They have been making inquiries already about Allan’s mother here, where her exemplary life may set their closest scrutiny at defiance.
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

No woman had ever loved me, still less had I ever let a woman pay with suffering the penalty of her affection for me.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes

No man in the history of the world has ever laboured more strenuously or more successfully than my right honourable friend, Sir Edward Grey, for that which is the supreme interest of the modern world—a general and abiding peace.
— from The Campaign Round Liège by J. M. (John McFarland) Kennedy

Yet I deceived you; at least, tacitly—you who have ever loved me so truly, you who have saved me at last, and pointed out the road to heaven.
— from Inez: A Tale of the Alamo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

As Karff with his electric lamp moved slowly and noiselessly along, carefully examining England's newest submarine, which rumour had said was the most silent and perfect craft of its kind, I was able to make out vaguely that, differing considerably from photographs of other submarines I had seen, the boat on the elevated stocks had a bow which ran out into a kind of snout, while instead of the usual small circular or oval conning-tower she had what looked like a long, narrow superstructure running along the greater part of her length.
— from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux

For no woman has ever loved me save that Azra who was my mother—" "I wonder if your mother told you that?"
— from Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice by James Branch Cabell

At home he would hardly ever leave my side, and never ceased looking into my eyes.
— from Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan

Mr. Clingman, of North Carolina, opening the debate, predicted that the same political organization which had elected Lincoln must soon control the entire Government, and being guided by a sentiment hostile to the Southern States would change the whole character of the Government without abolishing its forms.
— from Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John G. (John George) Nicolay