As our party left the Hall, he stood at the entrance; he saw and knew me, and lifted his hat; he offered his hand in passing, and uttered the words "Qu'en dites vous?"—question eminently characteristic, and reminding me, even in this his moment of triumph, of that inquisitive restlessness, that absence of what I considered desirable self-control, which were amongst his faults.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

[A2; a12] make a killing, make a lot of money (slang).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud, chilling And killing my ANNABEL LEE.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

and coming half across the room to meet me, kneeled down upon the ground and kissed me, and laid my head down on her bosom near the little creature that was nestling there, and put its hand to my lips.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

This very pretty insect has occurred at Palmerston and Wellington in the North Island, and at Kekerangu, Mount Arthur, Lake Coleridge, Mount Hutt and Lake Wakatipu, in the South Island.
— from New Zealand Moths and Butterflies (Macro-Lepidoptera) by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson

At bedtime she read a chapter aloud, and kneeling, made a low, plaintive prayer, the burden of which was always thankfulness and trust.
— from Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

I came out into the world to open the greatest book of all—the book of Life—to try to meet and know men and learn some day, perhaps, to be a man also and one you can honour.
— from Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

Before reaching this place on my first visit to it, the country people had indiscriminately called it “Keston Cross ” and “Keston mark ;” and lacking all intelligible information from them respecting the reason for its being so named, I puzzled myself with conjectures, as to whether it was the site of a cross of memorial, a market cross, a preaching cross, or what other kind of cross.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Luther’s statements in the years 1522-1525 concerning the establishment of new congregations are certainly not at all clear, as Karl Müller admits (“Luther und Karlstadt,” “Luthers Gedanken über den Aufbau der neuen Gemeinden,” p. 121).
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

“' Jobe Galloway .'” “Oh, Bud, I'll never forgit that home-comin' when she met me at the gate an' kissed me an' laughed a little an' cried a heap, an' we walked in the little parlor an' the preacher made us one.
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

Viola did not say anything, but she ceased to cry and kissed me and lay still in my arms.
— from Five Nights: A Novel by Victoria Cross

Forgive me and kiss me, and let me go.”
— from By order of the company by Mary Johnston

Venezuela Spanish (official), numerous indigenous dialects Vietnam Vietnamese (official), English (increasingly favored as a second language), some French, Chinese, and Khmer; mountain area languages (Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Polynesian)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He's a kind man and lots of fun.
— from The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton