This being done, and being now assured of what he sought for, he began to wag his tail, as dogs do when they flatter their masters, and to kiss and lick the hands and thighs of the poor wretch, who was beside himself, and almost dead with fear.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"Observe the Duke's countenance carefully when you give him this message," added the King, "and let me know his reply."
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

He is also identified with Alki Temple of the Dramatic Order of the Knights of Khorassan at Walla Walla and the Knights of the Maccabees and the Knights and Ladies of Security.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

After many altercations the King at last proposed, that she should accept a ring which he then took off his finger, in pledge for her money, which she likewise refused, and told him, that as she was no judge of the value of the ring, she did not chuse to accept such pledges.
— from The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II. by Theophilus Cibber

I went into my own room, and after I rustled some water I made myself and the kiddies a little more presentable.
— from Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

The commencement of our Planetary System, including the sun, must, according to Kant and Laplace, be regarded as an immense nebulous mass filling the portion of space which is now occupied by our system far beyond the limits of Neptune, our most distant planet.
— from Curiosities of Science, Past and Present A Book for Old and Young by John Timbs

Then he slowed down, ordered the lead hove, each side, and ringing full speed, quietly took the wheel, changing the course again to east, quarter north, and ordering a man aloft to keep a lookout in the thinner fog for lights ahead.
— from The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility by Morgan Robertson

Lots o’ men admire that kind a little while, and then tread on it without even noticin’ that they have.”
— from Clever Betsy: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

Nevertheless, these broils multiplied, and the King at last grew so weary of them that one evening he called the Princesses before him, and threatened that if they did not improve he would banish them all from the Court.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Complete by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de