As I told you in my letter when I wrote that Amy had been so kind to me, I never shall stop loving you, but the love is altered, and I have learned to see that it is better as it is.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Anxious to appear friendly and at her ease, she put out her hand with a confiding gesture, and said gratefully... "How can I be afraid when you have been so kind to Father?
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

But she knew that if she attempted to make a personal examination Davy would likely take to his heels and she could not pursue him today.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Misárap ang ayruplánu sa bapur sa kaáway, The airplane buzzed the enemy ship.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I wish, said I, you'd be so kind to fetch me a rod and baits.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Sesoi the Great, will you be so kind?” “‘Tain’t nothin’ at all,” said the giant leisurely.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ang kíraw sa balay sa kaslunun, The hum of activity in the bride-to-be’s place.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

She tried to excuse herself on the plea that, in the Trenor set, if one played at all one must either play high or be set down as priggish or stingy; but she knew that the gambling passion was upon her, and that in her present surroundings there was small hope of resisting it.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

4: "Before the boy shall know to cry, My father and my mother," is quite the same.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

But she knew that could not be.
— from The Precipice: A Novel by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

But she knew that her father did not like to see her cry, and besides she was sure that her papa would only forbid her this pleasure because it was absolutely necessary to do so.
— from Heidi (Gift Edition) by Johanna Spyri

There were times when she wanted to throw herself down and give up to despair, but she knew there would be opportunity for that when she could no longer fight for her life.
— from The Sheriff's Son by William MacLeod Raine

In vain he pursued and called after them; and at last he was compelled to follow them unclothed to the camping ground, where he presented himself crying piteously; but the women who had been so kind to him would not help him now, and only laughed to see how white his skin looked by contrast with the dark copper-coloured skins of the other children.
— from A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

“It would be a duty to do our best for any of Hetty’s friends who have been so kind to her in the city, but in this case it’s going to be a privilege, too,” he said.
— from The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss

Although her timidity made her seem like a child, physically speaking she was a lovely girl of nineteen, with a graceful figure, clear white skin, and brown hair; her mouth was beautiful, her teeth small and even, her almond-shaped eyes were charming in the softness of their expression; but she kept them almost always on the ground, at least before her parents; I like to think that she raised them sometimes when she was talking with Lucien.
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock

Lucia did not understand what he said, but she knew that her captor was well out of sight with his pick and shovel by now, and in all probability would not return and give her away, and she was beginning to enjoy the part of a "stupid.
— from Lucia Rudini: Somewhere in Italy by Martha Trent

After the drive he went in to see Kule, who thanked him in his heavy sort of way for being so kind to the children.
— from In God's Way: A Novel by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson