Foma has a room in the house of these sluts here.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He saw that I was in earnest, and stooping, took my hand, and raising it to his lips, kissed it.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

He took her hand and raised it to his lips with something like a sob.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

my husband always remains in the house, never goes out to another village even on invitation.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

[Homer]; aux absents les os; briller par son absence[Fr]; "conspicuous by his absence" [Russell]; "in the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet" [B. Jonson].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Faith, walking the back-lanes, through the gardens, I chanced to cast mine eye up to the Jew's counting-house, where I saw some bags of money, and in the night I clambered up with my hooks; and, as I was taking my choice, I heard a rumbling in the house; so I took only this, and run my way.—But here's the Jew's man.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Isaiah , i, 18. Hebrus, a river in Thrace, here mentioned because it awaked to music the head and lyre of the dead Orpheus, as he floated down its stream.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

“The dew is yet on him, and since I had the bright idea of giving him a room in the house and having him at meals I feel less withered myself.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Brave sons of old Ikshváku, hear And rescue in this hour of fear.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

That likewise have we thought upon, and thus: Nan Page my daughter, and my little son, And three or four more of their growth, we'll dress Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, green and white, With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, And rattles in their hands; upon a sudden, As Falstaff, she, and I, are newly met, Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once With some diffused song; upon their sight We two in great amazedness will fly.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He nodded his head and ran into the house, eager not to lose a moment.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Then she buried her face in her hands and ran into the house.
— from Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase

Lady Jane Grey, eldest daughter of the marchioness of Dorset, who had been placed immediately after the two princesses in order of succession, had also resided in the house of the lord-admiral during the lifetime of the queen-dowager, and he was anxious still to retain in his hands a pledge of such importance.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

After reading the oration, Mr. V.M. King, editor of The Temps , decided to take it home with him and read it to his wife.
— from Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

she called after him, and ran inside the house.
— from You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

Dr. Riccabocca dropped the yawning wood into its place, picked up his handkerchief and restored it to his pocket; and then, with some curiosity, began to examine the nature of that place of duresse which had caused so much painful emotion to its rescued victim.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

He took her hand and raised it to his lips.
— from A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

"The captain has a ridiculous idea that he is the cause of my going," I said quickly.
— from Richard Carvel — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill

Mrs. Morris cried, and catching me up in her arms, ran in the house with me, and Jack followed with old Jim.
— from Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders