“You may think my departure strange and foolish,” said the young man; “you do not know how a paragraph in a newspaper may exasperate one.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

This is certain.' Faint, sickening sensations crept along all the fibers of my body, and I seemed to know how a person feels who hears his death sentence pronounced from the bench.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

“And that,” she exclaimed, “is the young person whom you wanted me to know!” H2 anchor PART II Winterbourne, who had returned to Geneva the day after his excursion to Chillon, went to Rome toward the end of January.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

She could not keep her appointment punctually, however; the weather was unfavourable, and she had grieved over the rain on her friends' account, and felt it very much on her own, before she was able to attempt the walk.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

But when she drew nearer, and I saw her blue eyes looking bluer, and her dimpled face looking brighter, and her whole self prettier and gayer, a curious feeling came over me that made me pretend not to know her, and pass by as if I were looking at something a long way off.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

You know our dear friend Podsnap?' Twemlow ought to know the dear friend Podsnap who covered him with so much confusion, and he says he does know him, and Podsnap reciprocates.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

So I thought I couldn’t do better nor knit him a pair o’ warm stockings; an’ I’ve felt to like him a deal better, poor old man, sin’ I began.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

“It seems, then, that this horrible Beast keeps him a prisoner.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He did not say that the Emperor had kept him, and Prince Andrew noticed this affectation of modesty.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For reasons of his own King Heathman always prefers to use the dialect of his country.
— from By Violence by John Trevena

After they had seized him, and dragged him out, one of the banditti returned to get some pillows; when the women shut him in and kept him a prisoner some time.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Smith, Joseph, Jr.

In this pagoda, opposite to its principal gate which is to the east, there is a very beautiful street of very beautiful houses with balconies and arcades, in which are sheltered the pilgrims that come to it, and there are also houses for the lodging of the upper classes; the king has a palace in the same street, in which he resides when he visits this pagoda.
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century

At my refusal there was a storm of tears as usual, but it soon passed over on my kissing her and promising we would go to a jeweller's on the morrow and have one something like it put on her own arm.
— from Five Nights: A Novel by Victoria Cross

The first kind has a pile of flaked flint, called kūki (“claw” or “nail”), and was known as kukĭ´ksadlĭñ (“provided or fitted with claw material”).
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

But the king later summoned Tassilo to his presence and kept him a prisoner, not permitting him to return to his duchy; and from that time on the province was not ruled by a duke, but was divided into counties over which Karl placed counts of his own choosing.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

But Gonzalo Pizarro always kept him a prisoner, living in Gonzalo’s tent and never being allowed to go out of his sight, until Sacsahuana.
— from The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de León