Her whigship was wonderful pleased, But charmingly tickled wi' ae thing, Her fingers I lovingly squeezed, And kissed her, and promised her—naething.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Her aunt was no very methodical narrator, but with the help of some letters to and from Sir Thomas, and what she already knew herself, and could reasonably combine, she was soon able to understand quite as much as she wished of the circumstances attending the story.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

But Goltz destroyed a dog's entire left hemisphere, together with the corpus striatum and the thalamus on that side, and kept him alive until a surprisingly small amount of motor and tactile disturbance remained.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

One that steals and kills horses and dogs for their skins; also an inn-keeper: in Ireland it signifies a boxer.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

I aim to banish his image as seated and keep him again before my eyes.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

The one thing, darling, is that I am so glad to have you!” said Anna, kissing her again.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Well, well; good-bye, mother,” said Adam, kissing her and hurrying away.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

“I must have that purse, I tell you,” shouted Denísov, shaking his orderly by the shoulders and knocking him against the wall.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Agamemnon was convulsed with pain, but still not even for this did he leave off struggling and fighting, but grasped his spear that flew as fleet as the wind, and sprang upon Coon who was trying to drag off the body of his brother—his father's son—by the foot, and was crying for help to all the bravest of his comrades; but Agamemnon struck him with a bronze-shod spear and killed him as he was dragging the dead body through the press of men under cover of his shield: he then cut off his head, standing over the body of Iphidamas.
— from The Iliad by Homer

At any rate, till I knew definitely what was this mysterious stain upon one so simple and pure, as Lucy seemed, I would not desert her, and so I said; and she made answer:— “If you are daring in your heart to think harm of my child, sir, after knowing her as you have done, you are no good man yourself; but I am so foolish and helpless in my great sorrow, that I would fain hope to find a friend in you.
— from Round the Sofa; vol. 2 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

For reasons which seemed adequate to the authorities in Washington, notwithstanding the serious results for McClellan and his army, McDowell was forbidden to march south and keep his appointment.
— from The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace by Frederick Morse Cutler

She put his newspaper one side and kissed him, and he submitted to the caress patiently, his eyes still following the paragraph on which they had been fixed.
— from Little Stories of Married Life by Mary Stewart Cutting

As Fürbringer remarks (Senator and Kaminer, Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage , vol.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

He was a rough-looking man, with a rough, heavy voice; but when he spoke to her, his tones were very gentle, and as he held her in his lap he stroked her hair softly and kissed her again and again.
— from Nanny Merry or, What Made the Difference? by Anonymous

They have no reins to govern the dogs, or stop them in their course, but the driver sits upon his sledge, and keeps himself as steady as he is able, holding in his hand a short stick, which he throws at the dogs if they displease him, and catches again with great dexterity as he passes.
— from The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day

"And so you are out of the San and keeping house again.
— from Sunny Slopes by Ethel Hueston