But Kitty heard and saw he was ashamed and uncomfortable at being naked before her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Thence home to my wife, and took her to my Aunt Wight’s, and there sat a while with her (my uncle being at Katharine hill), and so home, and I to Sir W. Batten’s, where Captain Cock was, and we sent for two bottles of Canary to the Rose, which did do me a great deal of hurt, and did trouble me all night, and, indeed, came home so out of order that I was loth to say prayers to-night as I am used ever to do on Sundays, which my wife took notice of and people of the house, which I was sorry for. 11th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Mistress, that every Thing might look to be done without Design, lies that Night in the Maid’s Bed, little dreaming of what an Adventure it would produce: After she had been a Bed some Time, thinking on what had pass’d, for Jealousy kept her awake, she heard some Body enter the Room; at first she apprehended it to be Thieves, and was so fright’ned, she had not Courage enough to call out; but when she heard these Words, Mary, are you awake ?
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Wert thou the thief, I'd know him and shame him.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You do know her, and she helps you better than any one else could," answered Laurie, looking at her with such mischievous meaning in his merry black eyes, that Beth suddenly turned very red, and hid her face in the sofa-cushion, quite overcome by such an unexpected discovery.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

And she kissed her and shook her clothes straight, and put her back upon her chair.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

However, at last, one day, Zeppa being at home, unknown to his wife, Spinelloccio came to call him and the lady said that he was abroad; whereupon the other came straightway up into the house and finding her in the saloon and seeing none else there, he took her in his arms and fell to kissing her and she him.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Dean George Hodges tells with kindly humor and sound historical judgment the dramatic story of the implanting of the episcopate in hostile New England.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

"Yes; she is gone off with two gentlemen in a post-chaise, and one of them kissed her, and said he would die for her; and she cried very much, and was for coming back; but he persuaded her again, and she went into the chaise, and said, 'Oh! what will my poor papa do when he knows I am undone!'"
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

This commanding position was favourable for a fortified town, and long before the Romans came to Gaul, kings had a stronghold here of great importance.
— from Old Continental Towns by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

I hated her, and I came to her and kissed her, and saw her beautiful white Persian cat sitting before the fire in this room, and thought of the fellow who was my bosom friend, and with whom I longed to be, shooting, or fishing, or riding.
— from The Return Of The Soul 1896 by Robert Hichens

And she embraced him and kissed him and stroked his hair, and exclaimed at his bronzed hue and his ragged attire.
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

Her mother was very jealous on that point, she loved her daughter to [Pg 36] kiss her and stroke her hands and her face, but she never liked her to play at being the mother, nor had she ever encouraged her daughter in the occupations of a doll.
— from Mary, Mary by James Stephens

He soon killed him and slung him over his shoulder and started back to his mother's house.
— from Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus MacMillan

She felt a strong impulse to jump up, take his head between her hands and kiss him as she had done in days gone by, but she remained where she was, immovable, with downcast eyes.
— from Married by August Strindberg

An' she's gittin' broke into de shafts, but hit's gwine hard wid her. 'Tain't natchul to hitch a young filly up to a old kerriage horse an' spec' her to keep step.
— from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice