The king thought the condition somewhat hard, but as he was anxious to have a son to bear his name, and inherit his wealth and kingdom, he at last agreed to the terms.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

" I kissed her and left her.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

"It might have been a carriage for her own kin!" Having at last taken her course Tess was less restless and abstracted, going about her business with some self-assurance in the thought of acquiring another horse for her father by an occupation which would not be onerous.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

She talked to Winterbourne as if she had known him a long time.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

And so our Shepherd, who before Had scarce had friend but hermit poor, And very seldom had in view Aught but his sheep and wolf or two, Was with a viceroy's sceptre graced; Nor was he by this change misplaced, For Nature had endowed his mind With funds of great good sense; And how to govern human kind He amply learned from thence.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

I have known him a long time!”
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

you knew him as long ago as that?
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

I am known here a little."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

But the next day it began to know her, and laughed when it saw her, and she took it into the fields, and ran about excitedly with it, and sat down under the shade of the trees; and then, for the first time in her life, she opened her heart to somebody, although he could not understand her, and told him her troubles; how hard her work was, her anxieties and her hopes, and she quite tired the child with the violence of her caresses.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And she kissed her and, laughing away her thanks, went upstairs.
— from The Hungry Heart: A Novel by David Graham Phillips

Hunt growled and roared at him, and kidded him; and Larry came back at him with the same kind of verbal horseplay, after the fashion of men.
— from Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott

Well, I wouldn’t have any objections to that if it wasn’t for one reason, and that is—Well, I hardly like to tell you the reason, either; but I have a young man, and his name’s Julius, and he’s so awfully short himself his head hardly comes above my shoulder; but then, you know, half a loaf’s better than no bread, and a short young man’s better than none at all.
— from The tragical acts, or comical tragedies of Punch and Judy by W. J. (William J.) Judd

She "helped Rodney with the constituency" of course, but it was Rodney's constituency, not hers; she entertained his friends and hers when they were in town, but she knew herself a light woman, not a dealer in affairs.
— from Dangerous Ages by Rose Macaulay

“I know him a little.
— from The Wicker Work Woman: A Chronicle of Our Own Times by Anatole France

Everybody in Thessaly knows him and likes him and calls him ‘John,’ and that seems to be the height of his ambition.
— from Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life in the Greater New York by Harold Frederic

She knew her a long time before she was even married.
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Even knowing him as little as he did, having to take so much on trust, still, in Chris's mind there was no smallest grain of doubt, suspicion, or distrust.
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson

[246] chief, whose name was “Balla,” who was the commander of their late expedition against that estate; and whose haunt Mr. Richardson very well knew, having a long while before attacked him there.
— from The History of the Island of Dominica Containing a Description of Its Situation, Extent, Climate, Mountains, Rivers, Natural Productions, &c. &c. by Thomas Atwood

I don’t think it would have killed her, at least not especially; but the doctor backed mamma up—and said some horrid things to me in his polite French way—and declared that St. Petersburg was not even to be thought of.
— from The Uncle Of An Angel 1891 by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier