In some it is considerable, in others middling, in yet others nil, in some even negative.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Your own name is strange enough.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Yet, one night, it seemed to me that a man noble and majestic in appearance slept with me, and I awoke to find that I had been in a dream.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

“Not to say entire yes or no in such cases,” said Vinet, “is to say no , with due regard to the intimacy of the two families.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Whether there be any seditious stranger among you or not, I shall not at present even endeavour to discover; but I will warn my old friends of their new ones:” and so saying, the Dominie withdrew.
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Sally goes on, half sotto voce : "You can recollect your own name, I suppose?"
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan

However, I firmly believe that, as a result of the progress made in so many domestic and international areas over the past four years, our Nation is stronger, wealthier, more compassionate and freer than it was four years ago.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

All I now say is, that in the story of Jesus I have beheld such grandeur—to me apparently altogether beyond the reach of human invention, such a radiation of divine loveliness and truth, such hope for man, soaring miles above every possible pitfall of Fate; and have at the same time, from the endeavour to obey the word recorded as his, experienced such a conscious enlargement of mental faculty, such a deepening of moral strength, such an enhancement of ideal, such an increase of faith, hope, and charity towards all men, that I now declare with the consent of my whole man—I cast in my lot with the servants of the Crucified; I am content even to share their delusion, if delusion it be, for it is the truth of the God of men to me; I will stand or fall with the story of my Lord; I will take my chance—I speak not in irreverence but in honesty—my chance of failure or success in regard to whatever may follow in this life or the life to come, if there be a life to come—on the words and will of the Lord Jesus Christ, whom if, impressed as I am with the truth of his nature, the absolute devotion of his life, and the essential might of his being, I yet obey not, I shall not only deserve to perish, but in that very refusal draw ruin upon my head.
— from Thomas Wingfold, Curate by George MacDonald

"It is true, and whether it pleases you or not, I shall go, monsieur."
— from A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne

You wrong yourself and your own nature in saying so.
— from The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming

Did she accuse you of----" "Not in so many words," interrupted the lover, "but I saw very plainly what she meant.
— from The Yellow Holly by Fergus Hume