She did not smile once, but looked at K. earnestly, with sharp, acquisitive eyes.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Oh, bin listenin' at key-'ole 'ave yer?
— from The Scaring off of Teddy Dawson: A Comedy in One Act by Harold Brighouse

On 21st October, the insured suffered severe injuries while trapped in a rising elevator with faulty safety equipment, resulting in loss of both legs above knees, multiple lacerations of—' Well, never mind the rest of it.
— from Preferred Risk by Edson McCann

Still a Union that can be maintained only by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness, has no charm for me.
— from Robert E. Lee: A Story and a Play by Ruth Hill

"I put on blue lipstick and kissed my elbows—both of 'em.
— from Thin Edge by Randall Garrett

It so happens that in this instance the secular law instead of being liberal and kindly was extremely cruel and the reverse of liberal.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

To him the articles of furniture were not inanimate objects but living and kindly beings, favourable genii whose departure was a presage of dire misfortune.
— from Monsieur Bergeret in Paris by Anatole France

"If not, they might as well have been stuck on behind like a knapsack, or like our shoulder-blades.
— from The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in by Grace Brooks Hill