"We have surely lost our way," he said, "and unless we find it again in time to reach the Emerald City, I shall never get my brains." "
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Then, too, I confess I should not be sorry to come across Mordaunt again.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Then, rising and extending his hand with an air of solemnity over the old man’s head, he slowly added, “By the blood of Christ I swear never to leave you while you live.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“Of course I shall not dream [Pg 112] of seeing him.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

THE STORY CONTINUED IN SEVERAL NARRATIVES 1.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

was concerned, I said ‘no.’
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It is certain, that if Ravaillac had not assassinated Henri IV., there would have been no documents in the trial of Ravaillac deposited in the clerk’s office of the Palais de Justice, no accomplices interested in causing the said documents to disappear; hence, no incendiaries obliged, for lack of better means, to burn the clerk’s office in order to burn the documents, and to burn the Palais de Justice in order to burn the clerk’s office; consequently, in short, no conflagration in 1618.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

But see how candidly I will behave to you: as I shall not touch upon those tenets you hold in common with other philosophers, consequently I shall not dispute the existence of the Gods, for that doctrine is agreeable to almost all men, and to myself in particular; but I am still at liberty to find fault with the reasons you give for it, which I think are very insufficient.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In one place she writes: "Were it left to myself whether to follow the vanities of the world, and go to heaven at last, or to live a religious life, have trials with sin and temptation, and sometimes enjoy the light of God's reconciled countenance, I should not hesitate a moment in choosing the latter, for there is no real satisfaction in the enjoyments of time and sense."
— from Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons by Arabella M. Willson

I will come up by the early express, and if you were to take tickets for the matinée at the Criterion, I should not object.
— from The Daughter Pays by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

"You are very forgiving, Elsie; but go, child, I shall not abuse him," Mr. Dinsmore answered, with an imperative gesture, and the little girl hurried from the room.
— from Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

” “I love,” said Clarendon, “the enthusiasm which places comfort in so noble a source; but, is vanity, think you, a less powerful agent than philanthropy?
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I designed, indeed, to have issued out several wholesome orders, but did not, for fear they should not be kept; in which case, it signifies no more to make them than if one made them not.
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

See Oftesithes. Sitte(n) , Sytt , Sit , v. to sit, sit at table, V 42, VIII a 262, XV g 25, XVII 247, &c.; I sit not dry , it isn't dry where I sit, XVII 370; to dwell, remain, IV a 64, XVI 272, 342; Sitt , 3 sg. pres.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

"No, I kept that in reserve for to-day as a broadside, and, of course, I said nothing to anyone about the papers you left with me."
— from Sarita, the Carlist by Arthur W. Marchmont

No, Señora; but since this chamber is so narrow that one can scarcely move in it, you must let me know if I’m in your way.”
— from The city of the discreet by Pío Baroja