Returning to the island, he so far abandoned all care of the government, that he never filled up the decuriae of the knights, never changed any military tribunes or prefects, or governors of provinces, and kept Spain and Syria for several years without any consular lieutenants.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Come and give old Pitt a kiss, like a good little gal.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I have often observed that the Season as it goes on produces a kind of softening of the brain.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

He seemed to have given up all idea of going to bed that night; but he drank little, only one glass of punch, and kept a sharp look-out on Mitya's interests after his own fashion.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His natural religious bent, inherited from generations of Puritans, and kept in its channel by his training from infancy, made it impossible for him to conceive of sympathy or antagonism in its fullest sense apart from God.
— from Pembroke: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Then shalt thou see a great and marvailous dogge, with three heads, barking continually at the soules of such as enter in, but he can do them no other harme, he lieth day and night before the gate of Proserpina, and keepeth the house of Pluto with great diligence, to whom if thou cast one of thy sops, thou maist have accesse to Proserpina without all danger: shee will make thee good cheere, and entertaine thee with delicate meate and drinke, but sit thou upon the ground, and desire browne bread, and then declare thy message unto her, and when thou hast received such beauty as she giveth, in thy returne appease the rage of the dogge with thy other sop, and give thy other halfe penny to covetous Charon, and come the same way againe into the world as thou wentest: but above all things have a regard that thou looke not in the boxe, neither be not too curious about the treasure of the divine beauty.
— from The Golden Asse by Apuleius

"Yes," said Mistress Margaret, intent on her embroidery, "the game of playing at kings and queens and courtiers and ruffs and high-stepping.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

Perhaps the night spent on the Elmore , the year before, was, on the whole, a more disagreeable experience; but, nevertheless, [Pg 183] the writer believes it would require a combination of the genius of Poe and Kipling to paint a fitting word-picture of that sojourn at Johnson's Camp, on the Neukluk.
— from The Land of Nome A narrative sketch of the rush to our Bering Sea gold-fields, the country, its mines and its people, and the history of a great conspiracy (1900-1901) by Lanier McKee

Then the first watch again goes on patrol and keeps watch until sunrise.
— from The Sea Rovers by Rufus Rockwell Wilson

she rejoined, going on playing, and keeping her eyes fixed on her fingers.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

He mangled the modern Divines more barbarously, than an Executioner a Traytors Body; not forbearing to give old Priscian a knock on the bald Crown.
— from The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants: The Fourth Part by Francis Kirkman

Afterward, Jesus looks at her and goes on preaching, always keeping his most holy gaze bent upon her; and she, after the first stanza of the sermon, looks at him, and her eyes meet those of Jesus.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

He could not hear her words: but was this even she whom he had seen trembling and weeping the evening before?—this she whose very heart was torn by conflicting passion?—who saw the pale ghosts of parent and kinsman stand between her and the lover whom more than her life she adored?
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley