At last, one day when he knew old Lobbs was out, Nathaniel Pipkin had the temerity to kiss his hand to Maria Lobbs; and Maria Lobbs, instead of shutting the window, and pulling down the blind, kissed hers to him, and smiled.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

“If, without disturbing him,” she said, raising her hand to Mr. Lorry as he stooped over them, after repeated blowings of his nose, “all could be arranged for our leaving Paris at once, so that, from the very door, he could be taken away—” “But, consider.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

They have come from the deep woods and the wild mountains and the desert sands and the polar snows only to do homage to my little Annie.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

When She-who-must-be-obeyed sent orders that ye were to be saved alive she said naught of the black man, therefore, being hyænas, these men lusted after his flesh, and the woman it was, whom thou didst rightly slay, who put it into their evil hearts to hot-pot him.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

“I could already hear their murmuring laughter as they came towards me.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I described what had happened to Mr. Luker, and what had happened to myself, exactly as I have described it here.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Why, you should have told me long ago that you were cold.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I was however already so moved at the piteous sight, that I from my heart repented the undertaking, and would willing had given over, thinking he had full enough; but, he encouraging and beseeching me earnestly to proceed, I gave him ten more lashes; and then resting, surveyed the increase of bloody appearances.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

This was his treating me like a little child, and never calling me by any other name in her presence but that of pretty miss.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Also much other business I did to my mind, and so weary home to my lodging, and there after eating and drinking a little I to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Nay, more; she allows me to press her hand to my lips, and listens to the sighing accents of love.
— from The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel: Founded on Fact by Hannah Webster Foster

There was, indeed, something almost eager in the manner in which she seized upon this opportunity of devoting herself to Miss Ludington, and the zeal with which she made the most of every possibility of rendering her a service.
— from Miss Ludington's Sister by Edward Bellamy

From thence to the Temple to further my bills being done, and so home to my Lord, and thence to bed.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

I went home to my lodgings, and seating by the fire I begun first to reason, saying, "Everyone is imployed, all have sume thing to do exepting me, and I am good for nothing, no use to society, but as a dead dog in the way."
— from The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler (Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809 by Harry Carter

If we have decided that we are to get up at a certain hour we get up at that hour and do not have to make up our minds about it again, though this is one of the actions in which we all have the most lapses and the most need of renewal of resolution and habit.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Under the calm ascension of the night We heard the mellow lapsing and return Of night-owls purring in their groundling flight Through lanes of darkling fern.
— from Poems, 1908-1919 by John Drinkwater

"They, when they found they had too much land, asked the Queen to it sell for them; they kept as much as they could want, and the price for which the remainder was sold was put away to increase for them, and many bands now have a yearly income from the land.
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

Now comes the Kislar Aga, or chief of the black eunuchs, to select for the imperial harem the most lovely and desirable of the importation, and having conducted them to his master, they are assigned apartments in the seraglio, and placed under the care of the instructress of the females.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

He tracks me like a blood-hound, and never loses sight of me when I am out.
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille