This might be a kind remembrance of Monsieur the Cardinal.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

My favourable opinion was soon to be confirmed, however, by his kind reception of me.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I have a most kind repetition of Mrs. Cooke's two or three dozen invitations, with the offer of meeting me anywhere in one of her airings.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

His kind reception of me, and shewing me his sister Davers's angry letter, against his behaviour to me, desiring him to set me free, and threatening to renounce him as a brother, if he should degrade himself by marrying me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It would be easier for the weakest poltroon that lives, to erase himself from existence, than to erase one letter of his name or crimes from the knitted register of Madame Defarge.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

“Now, ef I was in your place, I'd kinder reflect on my sins, and make my peace with God Almighty, for I tell you the looks
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

This might, perhaps, be the case; for although I had never heard of Father Souhaitti, and notwithstanding his manner of writing the seven notes without attending to the octaves was not, under any point of view, worthy of entering into competition with my simple and commodious invention for easily noting by ciphers every possible kind of music, keys, rests, octaves, measure, time, and length of note; things on which Souhaitti had never thought: it was nevertheless true, that with respect to the elementary expression of the seven notes, he was the first inventor.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Safely bring the ship of my brother homewards, Bring him back unharmed to the heart that loves him, Throbbing remorseful; Fair Immortal, banish from mind, I pray thee, Every discord's hint that of yore estranged us; Grant that never again dissension's hateful Wrangle shall part us; May he never in days to come remember Keen reproach of mine that had grieved him sorely; Words that broke my very heart when I heard them Uttered by others; Words that wounded deep and recurring often, Bowed his head with shame at the public banquet; Where my scorn, amid festal joy and laughter, Sharpened the covert Jests that stung his pride and assailed his folly, Slave-espoused when he, a Lesbian noble, Might have won the fairest in Mitylene, Virgins the noblest; Open slurs that linked his name with Doricha, Lovely slave that Xanthes had sold in Egypt; She whose wondrous charms the wealth of Charaxus Ransomed from bondage.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

Come ye to seek a champion's aid, On palfrey white, with harper hoar, Like errant damosel of yore? Does thy high quest a knight require, Or may the venture suit a squire?' Her dark eye flashed;—she paused and sighed:— 'O what have I to do with pride!— Through scenes of sorrow, shame, and strife, A suppliant for a father's life, I crave an audience of the King.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

In these the permanent or after or secondary (really tertiary ) kidneys ( renes or metanephri ) that are distinctive of these three classes soon make their appearance.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

And We do hereby further Declare and Publish, That if any Person or Persons after this Our Proclamation published, shall Directly or Indirectly Conceal, Harbor, Keep, Retain, or Maintain the said Edward Whalley and William Goffe, or either of them, or shall Contrive or Connive at any means whereby they or either of them shall or may Escape from being Taken or Arrested, or shall not use their best Endeavor for their and either of their Apprehensions, as well by giving the Advertisement thereof to Our Officers, as by all other good means; We will (as there is Just Cause) proceed against them that shall so neglect this Our Commandment with all severity.
— from British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783 by Great Britain. Sovereign

Don't you see him too, Brad?" "I sure see something in that shadow, and it keeps right on moving," the one addressed replied, positively.
— from Fred Fenton on the Crew; Or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport School by Allen Chapman

At a distance eastward, the Karenee range of mountains some four thousand feet in height, their sides thickly covered by forest; the general aspect of the locality and its surroundings forlorn and unattractive.
— from Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc. by Gordon, Charles Alexander, Sir

Magdalene would gladly have run over and hugged and kissed Ruth one more good-bye, but as their route to the south, along the foot of Mount Carmel, had been unnoticed, the Master's orders were to proceed again in the night and cross the Esdraelon Plain before day.
— from Looking Back: An Autobiography by Merrick Abner Richardson

Thérèse de Blainville Q Morris, J. K., Rondeau O Morris, R., Avening O Morris, Nathan B., Advocate Harbor N S Morris, Bernard, Summerville O Morrison, R., Hawkesville O Morrison, John, Wreck Cove, W.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

In that way she thought to put her conscience to rights, to regard herself in the kind rôle of ministering angel.
— from Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick

His gaze, still clear and keen, rested on me thoughtfully, then passed quickly through the room, as though this would bring him enlightenment upon the relevancy of my question.
— from Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch. Two Stories of Jewish Life by Ulrich Frank