Sweet tea miss Kennedy having poured with milk plugged both two ears with little fingers.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

P. 59, ll. 1021 ff., Why does Medea kill her children?]—She acts not for one clearly stated reason, like a heroine in Sardou, but for many reasons, both conscious and subconscious, as people do in real life.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

And Arthur was so bloody, that by his shield there might no man know him, for all was blood and brains on his sword.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Now Hrollaug went to meet King Harald, gave up to him his whole kingdom, offered to enter into his service, and told him his whole proceeding.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Thus Armelline had only let me kiss her hands after a long contest, and neither she nor Emilie would allow me to see whether the stockings I had given them fitted well or not.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

CHAPTER VIII Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

“Is it possible, though,” I continued, “that her father did not guess that she was with you in the fortress?” “Well, you must know, he seems to have had his suspicions.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

At Leptis, a town in Libya, it is the custom for the bride the day after marriage to send to her mother-in-law's house for a pipkin, who does not lend her one, but says she has not got one, that from the first the daughter-in-law may know her mother-in-law's stepmotherly mind, 173 that if afterwards she should be harsher still, she should be prepared for it and not take it ill.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

WHEN SHE CAME HOME FROM COLLEGE By MARIAN K. HURD and JEAN B. WILSON “An especially natural and breezy college girl’s story.”— Baltimore Sun.
— from Clever Betsy: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

My mother is old and poor now, and I must keep her—and how?
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

As soon as Avard's movements were thus made known, he was promptly excommunicated; and the "Danite" movement was stifled at its birth.
— from The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

He regarded God as a Father, to Whom he made known his little wants and anxieties.
— from Zones of the Spirit: A Book of Thoughts by August Strindberg

We had some conversation about music, (they are all musicians,) and the opera, and Malibran, whom they have lately seen in Italy; and Pasta, whom they had visited at Como; and they confirmed what Mr. J. M. Stuntz and M. K. had all told me of her benevolence and excellent character.
— from Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1 (of 3) With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

His case demanded companions of his own age, a little world of fellow-beings, with whom he might engage in their petty business and cares, with whose passions his own might jostle or might sympathise, who might kindle his emulation, and open to him the field of fraternal associations and amity.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin

Alfred had only just called to mind the newspaper which Mr. Keene had given him; and was unfolding it for perusal.
— from Demos by George Gissing

And the proud mother kissed her affectionately.
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner