Matthew and I are such kindred spirits I can read his thoughts without words at all.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

In the next place, as she knew Sophia to have much more generosity than her master, so her fidelity promised her a greater reward than she could gain by treachery.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

So when the king had thus excused him they were friends, and King Mark would have had them unto Tintagil; but Sir Palomides would not, but turned unto the realm of Logris, and Sir Kehydius said that he would go into Brittany.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

a Sorrowful Knight SO PASSED the gentle springtime away in budding beauty; its silver showers and sunshine, its green meadows and its flowers.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

On whom could the sweet soft voice, the light step, the delicate hand, the quiet, cheerful, noiseless discharge of those thousand little offices of kindness and relief which we feel so deeply when we are ill, and forget so lightly when we are well—on whom could they make so deep an impression as on a young heart stored with every pure and true affection that women cherish; almost a stranger to the endearments and devotion of its own sex, save as it learnt them from itself; and rendered, by calamity and suffering, keenly susceptible of the sympathy so long unknown and so long sought in vain?
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But as soon as Sir Key saw it he knew well it was the sword of the stone, and, riding swiftly to his father, he cried out, “Lo!
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Ay, and she knows so well Her own deserts, that, when I strive t'enjoy them, She weighs the things I do, with what she merits;
— from Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson

With a sharp knife slice very thin; soak in cold water until crisp; drain and dry between clean towels.
— from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

She turned to go out of the room and saw Kraill standing in the sunlight.
— from Captivity by Leonora Eyles

"When the summer of 1862 came your grandmother wrote her that she must leave the plantation, as she was unacclimated to that malarial country; but she begged to stay a little longer, as she knew she was of service, and was quite well.
— from Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army, and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life by Marion Johnstone Ford

What was life worth without Guy, and why had she been thrown so much in his way; why permitted to love him as she knew she did, if she must lose him now?
— from Aikenside by Mary Jane Holmes