He reached towards her and took hold of her hand together with the cup, and placed her by him, clasped her round the neck, kissed her, and said: "A fairer than thou was never born."
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Look, please, don't overlook that, there's one phrase there, ‘I shall kill him as soon as Ivan has gone away.’
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sancho paid the crowns, the carter put to, the keeper kissed Don Quixote's hands for the bounty bestowed upon him, and promised to give an account of the valiant exploit to the King himself, as soon as he saw him at court.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

She had to keep herself alive somehow, and when the poor thing had pledged everything she possessed at the pawnbroker’s, she wrote plaintively: “This is the only money my talents have earned for me so far.”
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

she cried, kissing him, and she again looked at Pierre with the unconscious coquetry that had returned to her with her better spirits.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“You know,” he added, stopping at the door, “why I’m especially fond of that music?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Earl Toste had come from Flanders to King Harald as soon as he arrived in England, and the earl was present at all these battles.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“Don't you remember,” she asked, amazed, “how you killed him and saved all our lives?”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

With respect to Mr. Wolf, the first act was to claim the reversion recommended for him by Lord Westmoreland, and promised above a year ago by Mr. Pitt, and which the King had actually signed, as a measure for negotiation.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

"Yes, I know him; I knew him as soon as I got the cut of his jib coming aboard.
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Preaching isn't in my line; I'll help Charlie keep his apothecary shop, and sell patent medicines.
— from In Blue Creek Cañon by Anna Chapin Ray

As pure intelligence, the Deity must have always been self-conscious--must have known himself as substance and cause, as the Infinite and Perfect.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

Thus Mordecai deserves both appellations, the Benjamite and the Judean, for he owed his existence not only to his actual Benjamite forebears on his father's side, but also to the Judean David, who kept his ancestor Shimei alive.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Louis Ginzberg

He kept his accounts, small as they were, with the accuracy of a banker.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, March 1850 by Various

That father, when he knew him a student at Athens, in 355, prognosticated (Or. 4, in Julian, p. 122) from his light carriage, wandering eye, haughty look, impertinent questions, and foolish answers, what a monster the Roman empire was fostering and breeding up.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

"They've all stopped cryin' but Hazel Golly, and she ran when I wa'n't lookin' and got so far I couldn't ketch her; anyway she ain't no loss for I live next door to her.—What'll we do next?"
— from The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

From having considered them very respectful companions, amenable to instruction, she had begun to think that they meant perhaps to kill her as soon as it was dark, and cut up her body for gradual cooking; the suspicion crossed her that the fierce-eyed old man was in fact the Devil, who might drop that transparent disguise at any moment, and turn either into the grinning blacksmith, or else a fiery-eyed monster with dragon's wings.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

A man will go out ov hiz way rather than step on a kricket, and would rather skare a fly than kill him, az sazzy az
— from Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1870-1879 by Josh Billings