As for the lady, who had long been the sport of fortune, but the term of whose ills was now drawing near, she no sooner set eyes on Antigonus than she remembered to have seen him at Alexandria in no mean station in her father's service; wherefore, conceiving a sudden hope of yet by his aid regaining her royal estate, and knowing her merchant to be abroad, she let call him to her as quickliest she might and asked him, blushing,
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Salabaetto, rejoiced, embraced and kissed her; then, going forth of her house, he betook himself whereas the other merchants were used to resort.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I nodded assent to the pretty inquiry of the raised eyebrows, and kissed the parted lips.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The Canadian bent down to it, but the jaguar was dead; the hunter's bullet had entered its brain through the right eye, and killed it on the spot.
— from The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City by Gustave Aimard

He knew Scott's works, Rob Roy especially, and knew all the theories about the Parallel Roads, and explained them sensibly; and gave us accounts of the old family feuds between his own Macintosh clan and the Macdonalds, pointing to places where battles were fought, with a zeal which proved the feudal spirit still lives in its ashes.
— from The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Maria Edgeworth

2. Royally endowed; a King by truest “right divine,” because possessed of royal qualities of heart and mind (chap. xi. 2, 3).
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

He rose early and kept office hours with a new faithfulness, and he frequently carried books and papers home for study.
— from Otherwise Phyllis by Meredith Nicholson

Listening eagerly now--for this was indeed strange matter to stumble on in the dead of the night, he next heard the low clear voice of the woman in that room exclaim:-- "A king!
— from Traitor and True: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

Bewildered, I say, because we cannot understand how it all came to a dead stop in a single generation, not knowing that the frightful spoliation of our churches and other parish buildings, and the outrageous plunder of the parish guilds in the reign of Edward the Sixth by the horrible band of robbers that carried on their detestable work, effected such a hideous obliteration, such a clean sweep of the precious treasures that were dispersed in rich profusion over the whole land, that a dull despair of ever replacing what had been ruthlessly pillaged crushed the spirit of the whole nation, and art died out in rural England, and King Whitewash and Queen Ugliness ruled supreme for centuries." (Italics ours.)
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Our conversation turned on the peculiarities of the country, and especially of the glaciers which he had repeatedly explored and knew most intimately.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

With his feet he made pen-and-ink sketches rivalling etchings; and knitted stockings with needles made of wood.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

He commanded us to dismount, rose, embraced and kissed Fara, and hung around his neck a large gold disk,--the prize of victory for bringing as prisoner a crowned King.
— from The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn