No one is stirring yet, but I know where the stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I am not surprised that you tell me nothing of it, since your letter is dated the 21st, and the child was only born on the 20th, [29] during the night.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

"You know the world (which in your sense is the universe), and I know nothing of it, so you shall have your way.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I never saw the young lady but for a few minutes to-day; so, being a stranger to her personal merits, I pay a compliment to you, and offer her no offence, in saying you might do better.”
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

Thou askest no oath from me, and no oath I swear, yet I tell thee that if thou givest me ten thousand soldiers and a hundred chariots, I will smite these foes of thine so that they shall come no more to Khem, ay, though they be of my own people, yet will I smite them, and if I fail, then may those who go with me slay me and send me down to Hades.”
— from The World's Desire by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Miss Waterman's file doesn't have the exhibit numbers on it so you will have to identify it in some other way.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The segments in the sixth cirrus bear six, instead of four, pairs of spines,—a circumstance which I have noticed only in some young specimens of var.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

I have not been to very many balls, because you see I am not out in society yet.
— from The Carter Girls' Mysterious Neighbors by Nell Speed

"None of your d——d nonsense, or I shoot you down like a rat."
— from The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni