Besides, my godmother, knowing her son, and knowing me, would as soon have thought of chaperoning a sister with a brother, as of keeping anxious guard over our incomings and outgoings.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

“There is yet another way of spending your time and money; you may join the army; that is to say, you may hire yourself out at very high wages to go and kill men who never did you any harm.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

She sat down by the bedside and leaned over me, putting an arm round my neck and kissing me warmly.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

That young ass, Kurzen Mantl, winked at him, but I saw him, and he knew that I did.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I answered in a faint voice, “that death would have been too great a happiness; that although I could not blame the assembly’s exhortation, or the urgency of his friends; yet, in my weak and corrupt judgment, I thought it might consist with reason to have been less rigorous; that I could not swim a league, and probably the nearest land to theirs might be distant above a hundred: that many materials, necessary for making a small vessel to carry me off, were wholly wanting in this country; which, however, I would attempt, in obedience and gratitude to his honour, although I concluded the thing to be impossible, and therefore looked on myself as already devoted to destruction; that the certain prospect of an unnatural death was the least of my evils; for, supposing I should escape with life by some strange adventure, how could I think with temper of passing my days among Yahoos , and relapsing into my old corruptions, for want of examples to lead and keep me within the paths of virtue?
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Manon did my hair as well as my dear Dubois, and kissed me when she had done without making as many difficulties as Rose.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I see a kitchen maid walking along the corridor to the dining room with some dozens of plates piled high.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

ANT: Kernel, meat, wood, pulp, fruit.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

My friend came over to me impetuously, and kissed me warmly.
— from Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison

After dinner Angelica induced him to go with her to the drawing room, and when she had got him comfortably seated, and had given him his coffee and a paper, and just peace enough to let him fall into a pleasurably drowsy state, accompanied by a strong disinclination to move, she began to pick out the "Dead March" in "Saul" and kindred melodies with one finger on the piano.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

The Danish king received them hospitably, and he and Erling had private meetings and consultations: and so much was known of their counsels, that King Valdemar was to aid King Magnus with such help as might be required from his kingdom to win and retain Norway.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

And kissed me with the breath of hate; Since Folly fled, she bade me wear Her angry scarlet in my hair.
— from Florence on a Certain Night, and Other Poems by Coningsby Dawson

That experience has been of priceless value and benefit to me; for I resolved then, that as long as I lived I would never again rob a blind beggar-woman in a church; and I have always kept my word.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain

Its huge arms are stretched toward the ground as though reaching for some object they would clasp; and on one of these arms as its badge of divine authority, worn there as a knight might wear the colors of his Sovereign, grows the mistletoe.
— from The Bride of the Mistletoe by James Lane Allen

I found it as regular as possible in its periods of reversal: and I know no spectacle in the animal kingdom more wonderful than that which it presents—all the more wonderful that to this day it remains an unique fact, peculiar to this class among the whole animated world.
— from Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

W. H. Wilson + + — Survey 38:533 S 15 ‘17 500w W WADDINGTON, MARY ALSOP (KING) (MRS WILLIAM HENRY WADDINGTON).
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Wishes o'erjoyed with humble things, A rank adjudged by toil-won merit, Content that from employment springs, A heart that in his labor sings; A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
— from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

The topknot, worn by all Korean men, was at once to be cut off. Soldiers at the city gates proceeded to enforce this last regulation rigorously.
— from Korea's Fight for Freedom by Fred A. (Fred Arthur) McKenzie