On the whole his surmises, in addition to what he knew of the fact, increased his friendliness and tolerance towards Ladislaw, and made him understand the vacillation which kept him at Middlemarch after he had said that he should go away.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

It was exactly as if my charges knew how almost more awkward than anything else that might be for me.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

that I received upon a ticket for her husband, which is a great kindness I have done them, and having kissed her as much as I would, I away, poor wretch, and down to Deptford to see Sir J. Minnes ordering of the pay of some ships there, which he do most miserably, and so home.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This door would not keep him a moment, and then— A ringing came at the front door again.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“After this he allowed her to kiss him as much as she wished.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

1 But God knew that Adam believed he should frequently kill himself and make an offering to Him of his blood.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

When the Holy One comes back from meditation, tell him.' There stood an empty bullock-cart on a little knoll half a mile away, with a young banyan tree behind—a look-out, as it were, above some new-ploughed levels; and his eyelids, bathed in soft air, grew heavy as he neared it.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Always keep hidden as much as possible, even if you have to go a mile out of your way.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The knowing how a moral agent may break the perfect law, is involved in the knowing how such agent may keep that law.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

For stockings that are to cover the knee, knit half as much again, that is one and a half times the width of the stocking.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

“When my wife took sick, and I stopped goin' to sea, two year ago, and took up boat-fishin', I did n't know half as much about the coast as the young boys do, and one afternoon it was blowin' a gale, and we was all hands comin' in, and passin' along the Bar to go sheer 'round it to the west'ard, and Captain Fred Cook—he's short-sighted—got on to the Bar before he knew it, and then he hed to go ahead, whether or no; and I was right after him, and I s'posed he knew, and I followed him.
— from Eli First published in the "Century Magazine" by Heman White Chaplin

"No, no, Frank, you sha'n't; I want him; he's mine now," answered the little girl in an angry voice; "I will have him and keep him;" and making a dive across the table she seized the cage and ran away with it down the garden.
— from Naughty Miss Bunny A Story for Little Children by Clara Mulholland

Karl had also made an excursion into the forest, and brought back with him large quantities of a gum, which he had extracted from a tree of the genus ficus —a sort of caoutchouc —which is yielded by many species of ficus in the forests of the Lower Himalayas.
— from The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" by Mayne Reid

She let him kiss her as much as he chose, though he saw with amusement that he frightened her sometimes.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

His joy in life was so great that it agitated him, and kept him awake many a night, especially when it was moonlight, so that instead of sleeping he wandered about in the garden till dawn, alone with his dreams and fancies.
— from Resurrection by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We watched until we could make out our own white horse, Bob, and then we slid down the hickory pole that leaned against the stack, and made our way across the spongy sod to the burying-ground that stood on a knoll half a mile away.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 03 Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen by Elbert Hubbard

When the advance party reaches Salt Creek bridge (jg') the point signals "enemy in sight," and Private H reports that he saw about 6 or 8 mounted men ride up to the edge of the woods at Kern, halt a moment, and disappear.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Aiwohikupua i ka hoole ana mai a Laieikawai, no ka makemake ole e lawe
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

The following evening we arrived at Khathyl, a small Russian settlement of ten scattered houses in the valley of the Egingol or Yaga, which here takes its waters from the Kosogol half a mile above the village.
— from Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski