These are also mentioned in Purchas his Pilgrimage, as living in Iceland, “pigmies represent the most perfect shape of man; that they are hairy to the uttermost joynts of the fingers, and that the males have beards downe to the knees; but, although they have the shape of men, yet they have little sense or understanding, nor distinct speech, but make shew of a kinde of hissing, after the manner of geese.”
— from Curious Creatures in Zoology by John Ashton

Some of us, no doubt, live more in our memories than others: it is our doom.
— from The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd

They 'll wreak all Their spite on us, no doubt; but the old way Is to begin by talk of grievances: They have their grievances to busy them.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Let us take stock of ourselves lest creeping evil may be encroaching upon us, while we are all unaware—which is what some of us never do.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

"For which you cannot be blamed," remarked her brother; "but I don't understand how she expected to slip off unobserved." "Nor do I," added Sterry, with a meaning glance at Capt. Asbury.
— from Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Jefferies, for his part, has no agonies of soul to chronicle, nor does he watch for and set down the stages of unbelief, nor does he tell us of any arguments with friends.
— from The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Walter Besant