It was for that Monsieur Clifford presented you to me with small ceremony, and left us together with less,—only for that, and I am his friend, and I have many friends in the Latin Quarter, and we all know each other very well—and I am not studying art,
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

a woman always knows enough If but her range of understanding reaches To telling one from t'other, coat and breeches.
— from On Love by Stendhal

The girls go out into a birch-wood, wind a girdle or band round a stately birch, twist its lower branches into a wreath, and kiss each other in pairs through the wreath.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

‘This is not all of ’em, even as we already know ’em,’ said Bounderby, with many nods of hidden meaning.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Now must your conscience my acquittance seal, And you must put me in your heart for friend, Sith you have heard, and with a knowing ear, That he which hath your noble father slain Pursu’d my life.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Private revenge" sometimes deliberately inflicts a cruel death for atrocious wrong or insult, as when a king, enraged at the slaying of his son and seduction of his daughter, has the offender hanged, an instance famous in Nathan's story, so that Hagbard's hanging and hempen necklace were proverbial.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The Piccadilly Theatre had seldom seen within its walls a more picturesque figure than this old Highlandman, who stood there with his sailor's cap in his hand, and with a keen excitement in the proud and fine face.
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

As such he must drive his engine at forty miles an hour through blinding storm, or in inky darkness, or through menacing and stifling tunnels, or over dizzy bridges, or around the curve on the edge of the precipice—and do this with no shadow of fear or hint of trepidation, but always with a keen eye, a cool head, and a steady hand.
— from The Reconstructed School by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

No musician has probably exerted more far-reaching effects in this department of his art than Clementi, though he can not be called a man of the highest genius, for this lofty attribute supposes great creative imagination and rich resources of thought, as well as knowledge, experience, skill, and transcendent aptitude for a single instrument.
— from Great Violinists And Pianists by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

Black Bess's action amply verified what we have just asserted; for during Turpin's momentary despondency, her pace was perceptibly diminished and her force retarded; but as he revived, she rallied instantly, and, seized apparently with a kindred enthusiasm, snorted joyously as she recovered her speed.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

These tangible relics of the past bring us very near to the heart and the life of Greece, and waken a kindly enthusiasm in every one who approaches them.
— from Oxford by Andrew Lang

Mr. Thompson stood on the bowsprit, poising the death-dealing instrument, and with a keen eye watched the gambols of the fish.
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

They are fishermen and wreckers, and know every inch of bottom all along the reefs.
— from Up the River; or, Yachting on the Mississippi by Oliver Optic

—"It is brilliantly written, and will afford keen enjoyment to the discriminating taste.
— from Ringan Gilhaize, or, The Covenanters by John Galt

Among the callers in the early afternoon was a young girl in a gingham dress and without other covering, who stood timidly at the counter and asked for three dollars on a watch, a keepsake evidently, which she was loath to part with.
— from Children of the Tenements by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis