It happen’d this Ship was taken by English Pyrates, and Mary Read was the only English Person on Board, they kept her amongst them, and having plundered the Ship, let it go again; after following this Trade for some Time, the King’s Proclamation came out, and was publish’d in all Parts of the West-Indies , for pardoning such Pyrates, who should voluntarily surrender themselves by a certain Day therein mentioned.
— 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

Why at night both my gentlemen had kibed heels, a tetter in the chin, a churchyard cough in the lungs, a catarrh in the throat, a swingeing boil at the rump, and the devil of one musty crust of a brown george the poor dogs had to scour their grinders with.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

She shook and tugged, but Kim held all the tighter.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

aunt Pullet exclaimed, after preluding by an inarticulate scream; "keep her at the door, Sally!
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

"On her return she told me how kind the Emperor had been to her, that he had kept her all the evening, saying the kindest things to her.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

"Oh, I have forgotten my boots and my mittens," cried little Gerda, as soon as she felt the cutting cold, but the reindeer dared not stop, so he ran on till he reached the bush with the red berries; here he set Gerda down, and he kissed her, and the great bright tears trickled over the animal's cheeks; then he left her and ran back as fast as he could.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

“Well, I don't know,” he answered, tipping lazily back in his chair while she stood before him.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Brown ordered the grass round his position to be fired; a low ring of thin flames under the slow ascending smoke wriggled rapidly down the slopes of the knoll; here and there a dry bush caught with a tall, vicious roar.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

She bent to kiss him, and then said, as she stood by his side, "Yes, I'm afraid we must give up the hope of having her for a daughter.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

He kissed her affectionately, took her portmanteau from the porter, and turned to the girl who had come from the car with her.
— from Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray

But they won't keep him at the hospital long, because there's nothing the matter with him much, except that."
— from True, and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop

"Yes, dearest," and kissing her at the door of their stateroom, he hastened away on his errand.
— from In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown

Who could see and know him and think it possible to become another's?"
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

Mr. Sutton alone kept his attitude toward her unchanged.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 by Various

But she was too good a Christian to kill herself, as that heathenish Roman did.
— from Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady

I do not know how all this is to be accomplished, for not one word did his letter contain in respect to a crew or to the expenses of this navy.
— from Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry