Go away!' said Kim, scenting evil.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

And since Mrs. Jervis is so good a gentlewoman, and so kind to you, I am the easier a great deal, and so is your mother; and we hope you will hide nothing from her, and take her counsel in every thing.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

She had bought some small fishes, picked the most beautiful tomatoes in her little garden, as she knew that Crispin was very fond of them, and begged from a neighbor, old Tasio the Sage, who lived half a mile away, some slices of dried wild boar’s meat and a leg of wild duck, which Basilio especially liked.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Nag-ábut na man gánì ang sinanggì karun ug sa miáging túig, This year’s corn crop overlaps with last year’s.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So he ascended a high elevation made for him, and took his seat, in a throne made of gold, and spake kindly to the multitude, and declared with what joy he received their acclamations, and the marks of the good-will they showed to him; and returned them thanks that they did not remember the injuries his father had done them to his disadvantage; and promised them he would endeavor not to be behindhand with them in rewarding their alacrity in his service, after a suitable manner; but that he should abstain at present from the name of king, and that he should have the honor of that dignity, if Cæsar should confirm and settle that testament which his father had made; and that it was on this account, that when the army would have put the diadem on him at Jericho, he would not accept of that honor, which is usually so much desired, because it was not yet evident that he who was to be principally concerned in bestowing it would give it him; although, by his acceptance of the government, he should not want the ability of rewarding their kindness to him and that it should be his endeavor, as to all things wherein they were concerned, to prove in every respect better than his father.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Giúlì ang sulat kay wà kaprangkiyúhi, The letter was returned because they didn’t put stamps on it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“You are fatigued,” said madame, raising her glance as she knotted the money.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

She received them gracefully, calling each by name, for they were men high in the esteem and service of her grandfather, and she knew them well.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

At last she rase and gaed awa’, she kedna whaur till.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Why are they the happiest? Because they may be expected to pass into some gentle and social kind which is like their own, such as bees or wasps or ants, or back again into the form of man, and just and moderate men may be supposed to spring from them.
— from Phaedo by Plato

To the left is the barracks serving as a temporary prison, and at the gate a sentinel keeps guard.
— from Giacomo Puccini by Wakeling Dry

I've got a small knapsack that will hold all I want to carry.
— from Frank and Fearless; or, The Fortunes of Jasper Kent by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Few of our gymnasiums are so kept that their records will aid much in this inquiry, simply because the instructor either has no conception of the field before him, or, if he has, for some reason fails to improve the opportunity.
— from How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Blaikie

Do you think you have?" cried little Gerda, and she kissed the crow, and hugged him almost to death with joy.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Then they ceased from their labors, and began to establish other monasteries and send out swarms from the mother-hive to fill them, until the executive and administrative ability to govern a small kingdom had to be supplied from their numbers, and manual work had to give way to mental.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various

Her soul threw out its arms blindly grasping at she knew not what—yet called that unknown "God's Will."
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

Three families of Indians arrive from Athabasca, Beavers, geese, and swans killed.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. I by Alexander Mackenzie

Having said so much, the Colonel gave a slight kindly bow to his companion, and was about to pass on, but, looking at him again, waited to see if he had anything to say.
— from The House on the Moor, v. 1/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Madeline glanced at Stephen Kane's face and found it as white as a sheet.
— from The Flying Girl and Her Chum by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum