And still thy verse has charms, Sir David Lindesay of the Mount, Lord Lion King-at-Arms!
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

To their left lay Kingsport, its roofs and spires dim in their shroud of violet smoke.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

No prince charming is her beau ideal to lay a rare and wondrous love at her feet but rather a manly man with a strong quiet face who had not found his ideal, perhaps his hair slightly flecked with grey, and who would understand, take her in his sheltering arms, strain her to him in all the strength of his deep passionate nature and comfort her with a long long kiss.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Like Luther, and like Leibniz, Kant was one brake the more upon the already squeaky wheel of German uprightness.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When I was a student I owned a very old, thick Latin lexicon, “Kirschii cornu copia,” bound in wood covered with pig-skin.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

It was a long, long kiss, and it would have lasted longer still if I had not heard a hm! hm! just behind me, at which she made her escape through the bushes, and turning round I saw Rivet coming toward me, and, standing in the middle of the path, he said without even smiling: 'So that is the way you settle the affair of that pig of a Morin.'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

their crime, they were my friends: Thick as the boars, which some luxurious lord Kills for the feast, to crown the nuptial board.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Some pine of the long leaf kind appear on the Creek hills.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

‘My lord loves king-cups.’
— from Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

We're talking about Betty Gordon, this poor little lost kid here.
— from Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure by Jackson Gregory

I won't have to, will I, Lee? Lee, kiss me.”
— from Cytherea by Joseph Hergesheimer

His renown was triumphant throughout Europe; he became the pet of lords, ladies, kings, and Popes.
— from A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

Long live Kutusoff!"
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

They are the best in the world," Gerda declared, and it seemed, indeed, as if there could be no kinder children anywhere than those who filled all the autumn days with the magic of their fun and good-will for the little lame Karen.
— from Gerda in Sweden by Etta Blaisdell McDonald

But I have known merlins which were cunning enough never to carry a light lure, knowing from experience that it would be a mere waste of time, and yet, when they had taken a wild lark, never doubted that they could make off with it if they liked.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

It seems inconceivable that the Power, if it is anything like Lord Kitchener, can decide otherwise.
— from A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by May Sinclair

Two buckets, two pots with iron legs like Kafir pots, one big one and one little one.
— from Adventures in Bolivia by C. H. (Cecil Herbert) Prodgers