And does Shatov know about Fedka?” “I don’t talk to Shatov, and I don’t see him.” “Is he angry?” “No, we are not angry, only we shun one another.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But I find this denied by Sir G. Carteret, who tells me that he is sure he hath no kindness from the King; that the King at first, indeed, did endeavour to persuade the Duke of York from putting him away; but when, besides this business of his ill words concerning his Majesty in the business of the Chancellor, he told him that he hath had, a long time, a mind to put him away for his ill offices, done between him and his wife, the King held his peace, and said no more, but wished him to do what he pleased with him; which was very noble.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

least thou boast) to let thee know; At first I thought that
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Dum aliaj nacioj ankoraŭ ne konis metodojn por presi librojn, kaj ankoraŭ faris ilin skribe, la samtempaj ĥinoj jam estis forlasintaj tiun multekostan kaj tedan metodon.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Then Daśaratha, best of those Whose speech in graceful order flows, With gathered saints on every side, Thus to the lord of earth replied: “A truth is this I long have known, A favour is the giver's own.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And what was still more wonderful, the goose jumped down from the dish and waddled across the floor, with a knife and fork in its breast, to the little girl.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

If then the work of Man is a working of the soul in accordance with reason, or at least not independently of reason, and we say that the work of any given subject, and of that subject good of its kind, are the same in kind (as, for instance, of a harp-player and a good harp-player, and so on in every case, adding to the work eminence in the way of excellence; I mean, the work of a harp-player is to play the harp, and of a good harp-player to play it well); if, I say, this is so, and we assume the work of Man to be life of a certain kind, that is to say a working of the soul, and actions with reason, and of a good man to do these things well and nobly, and in fact everything is finished off well in the way of the excellence which peculiarly belongs to it: if all this is so, then the Good of Man comes to be “a working of the Soul in the way of Excellence,” or, if Excellence admits of degrees, in the way of the best and most perfect Excellence.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Side about 20 yards wide, which does not run, we also passd 7 Islands, I walked on Shore and killed a female Ibex or big horn animal in my absence Drewyer & Bratten killed two others, this animale is a species peculiar to this upper part of the Missouri, the head and horns of the male which Drewyer killed to day weighed 27 lbs it was Somewhat larger than the Mail of the Common Deer;) The body reather thicker deeper and not So long in proportion to its hight as the common Deer; the head and horns of the male are remarkably large Compared with the other parts of the animal; the whole form is much more delicate than that of the common goat, and there is a greater disparity in the Size of the mail and female than between those of either the deer or goat.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

‘But this—how long have you been aware of this?’ demanded he, laying his clenched hand on the table beside him, and looking me keenly and fixedly in the face.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

It was the lock of the door which had been closed ten years and she put her hand in her pocket, drew out the key and found it fitted the keyhole.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

You escaped last night--I know all, for it was my velvet knot--which I had made thinking to send it to you to procure this meeting--that he used as a lure.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

Presently, satisfied that the frost had been removed from nose and cheeks, he kicked off his snowshoes, shovelled the accumulated snow from the doorway with one of them, set the snowshoes on end in the snow at one side, and entering the tilt lighted a candle and kindled a fire in the stove.
— from The Gaunt Gray Wolf: A Tale of Adventure With Ungava Bob by Dillon Wallace

The proprietor of the Life-Saving Station indicated that building with his thumb, and told his daughter of the white muslin dress to kindle a fire in the stove.
— from The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

Has she kindled a flame in your young heart, eh?"
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Thus it was that Tissaphernes, having got through haphazard, with rather the worst of it, failed to wheel round and return the way he came, but reaching the camp of the Hellenes, there fell in with the king; and falling into order again, the two divisions advanced side by side.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The new minister's wife looked pleased to see her spark kindle a flame in the young heart.
— from New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

All the length of King Street they went, then into St. Mary's Road, then Fitzhugh Street, and back into King, and finally into her home in Pelham Place.
— from Miss Gibbie Gault by Kate Langley Bosher

But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Jeremiah by Anonymous