I know it; but I want you to see the force of it; because, once convinced with me that Miss Dare is innocent, you will be willing to tell all you know, even what apparently implicates her.
"Hand and Ring"
Anna Katharine Green
I hardly like to tell, Uncle Socrates, for it implicates one of the boys.
"Hector's Inheritance or The Boys of Smith Institute"
Horatio Alger
"Give me that letter, I beseech you," said Montreuil, changing his voice from anger to supplication; "I ask your pardon for my violence: the letter does not concern you but me; there is a secret in those lines which you see are in my handwriting that implicates my personal safety.
"Devereux, Book I."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton