They look'd up to the sky, whose floating glow Spread like a rosy ocean, vast and bright; They gazed upon the glittering sea below, Whence the broad moon rose circling into sight; They heard the wave's splash, and the wind so low, And saw each other's dark eyes darting light Into each other—and, beholding this, Their lips drew near, and clung into a kiss; A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love, And beauty, all concentrating like rays Into one focus, kindled from above; Such kisses as belong to early days, Where heart, and soul, and sense, in concert move, And the blood 's lava, and the pulse a blaze, Each kiss a heart-quake,—for a kiss's strength, I think, it must be reckon'd by its length.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

SYN: Own, possess, feel, entertain, accept, bear, enjoy, keep.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

One of two things, either some one with a boomerang arrived in Australia in the days of antiquity before European knowledge of the thing had been lost, or the Australian aboriginal reinvented it.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

It should also be especially kept in mind, that long-continued domestication tends to eliminate sterility, and is therefore little likely to induce this same quality.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Kings thou canst blame; a bold but prudent youth: And blame even kings with praise, because with truth.
— from The Iliad by Homer

It was not a ball, nor had dancing been announced, but everyone knew that Catherine Petróvna would play valses and the écossaise on the clavichord and that there would be dancing, and so everyone had come as to a ball.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The Arabic book, El Ktab , or "The Secret Laws of Love," is a modern work, by Omer Haleby Abu Othmân, who was born in Algiers of a Moorish mother and a Turkish father.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

With sleek heads cocked alertly, and bright eyes keen with interrogation, they listened to the curious noises inside the tree.
— from Some Animal Stories by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

So you see it's a good thing to know how to swim, and I hope all of you, who are big enough, know how to keep up in the water.
— from Uncle Wiggily's Travels by Howard Roger Garis

Here love is in a measure materialized: we see the persons who are animated by this passion: they express themselves in a manner to make one really think they feel it: they attempt by every kind of coquetry to deceive and delude the public, and even to excite desires.
— from A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses. by L. (Léopold) Deslandes

Alminy was a good soul, with red cheeks and bright eyes, kind-hearted as she could be, and it was out of the question for her to hide her thoughts or feelings like a fine lady.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

If a Belgian or a Frenchman had been guilty of such treachery the Germans could not have found sufficient terms of abuse to heap upon his head; but as he was a German his action became ein kühnes Reiterstückchen (a "Bold exploit of a Cavalryman").
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart

There are good elephants and bad elephants, kind ones and treacherous ones.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

He was short, with a large-sized lower chest; bald, with a short, grey beard cut to a sharp point; waxed moustache ends, sticking out ferociously; and brown eyes, keen with intelligence.
— from To-morrow? by Victoria Cross