He felt cut off at the knees, a figure made worthless.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

He, too, had been carried along by the energy of his noble kinswoman, and future mother-in-law.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I did not see her till eleven o’clock on the morning after my arrival; when she honoured me with a visit, just as my mother might step into the kitchen to see a new servant-girl: yet not so, either, for my mother would have seen her immediately after her arrival, and not waited till the next day; and, moreover, she would have addressed her in a more kind and friendly manner, and given her some words of comfort as well as a plain exposition of her duties; but Mrs. Murray did neither the one nor the other.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Their names are Anne Kearns and Florence MacCabe.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

He returned, however, in eight or nine weeks, and did not entirely keep aloof from me, but comported himself in so remarkable a manner that his quick-sighted sister could not fail to notice the change.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

And as you could not prevent me from being beautiful and from pleasing people, from being called in drawing-rooms and also in the newspapers one of the most beautiful women in Paris, you tried everything you could think of to keep admirers from me, and you hit upon the abominable idea of making me spend my life in a constant state of motherhood, until the time should come when I should disgust every man.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“Well, then, don’t keep anything from me.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

And again, my brothers, permit me to bid you a fond, but perhaps a last, farewell on earth, until we meet again where parting is never known and friends meet to part no more forever.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

That I suffered much in these contentions, that they filled me with unhappiness and remorse, and yet that I had a sustaining sense that it was required of me, in right and honour, to keep away from myself, with shame, the thought of turning to the dear girl in the withering of my hopes, from whom I had frivolously turned when they were bright and fresh—which consideration was at the root of every thought I had concerning her—is all equally true.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

A keepsake and faint music.
— from Linda Condon by Joseph Hergesheimer

But by Amroth's gentle power that had been for a time kept away from me, that I might rest and rejoice.
— from The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson

“Dula told me—she can say a few words in English, and I know a few Malay sentences as well, so that we managed to understand one another—she said her husband thought he could get the boat down to the foot of our garden in the darkness, and then we could all carry baskets of fruit, and so pass through the Malays to a spot where we could make a dash for the Residency, where we should be safe, if some of the soldiers didn’t shoot us down.”
— from Trapped by Malays: A Tale of Bayonet and Kris by George Manville Fenn

I have only one wish regarding him, and that is that he will keep away from me.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

Though Nowar had got a box of my rice and appropriated many things from the plunder of the Mission House besides the goods entrusted to his care, and got two of my goats killed and cooked for himself and his people, yet now he would not give a particle of food to my starving Aneityumese or myself, but hurried us off, saying, "I will eat all your rice and keep all that has been left with me, in payment for my lame knee and for my people fighting for you!"
— from The Story of John G. Paton; Or, Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals by John Gibson Paton

The leave-taking in the evening was kind and friendly; Mr. Effingham, who had a sincere regard for his late fellow-traveller, cordially inviting him to visit him in the mountains in June.
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper