For Joe had actually laid his head down on the pillow at my side, and put his arm round my neck, in his joy that I knew him.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

So the king of Syria took his army with him, and came to Samaria, and placed his army round about the city, and besieged it.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

A little boating and beach work in the morning; then twenty or thirty men down in a close hold, where we were obliged to sit down and slide about, passing hides, and rowsing about the great steeves, tackles, and dogs, singing out at the falls, and seeing the ship filling up every day.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

They moved slowly, in unison, below us, over the lawn, the boy, as they went, reading aloud from a storybook and passing his arm round his sister to keep her quite in touch.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

she said, stopping short and putting her arm round the heaving shoulders.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

I hold it to be an impious and an execrable maxim that, politically speaking, a people has a right to do whatsoever it pleases, and yet I have asserted that all authority originates in the will of the majority.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

My mother moved closer to me on the sofa and put her arms round my neck.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

On this Mr. Poole became so much agitated, and expressed himself so incoherently as to his relations with Jasper, that the ex-agent conceived suspicions against Poole himself, and reported the whole circumstances to one of the chiefs of the former service, through whom they reached the very man whom I myself was employing.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

She's actually put her arm round that odious little Maggie Muir, and taken Nell Boughton on her knee!
— from A Pair of Schoolgirls: A Story of School Days by Angela Brazil

Fan, seeing her distress, half-guessing its cause, went to her side and put her arm round her.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Dora, with a sweet impulse, dropped her sewing, and, putting her arms round the elderly lady's neck, kissed her on the cheek.
— from Jim Mortimer by R. S. Warren (Robert Stanley Warren) Bell

He kissed her as he spoke, and put his arm round her.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

he said soothingly, and putting his arm round her.
— from Nell, of Shorne Mills; or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice

Whatever doubt might be cast on his statements and previous history, as related by himself, no one had ever dreamed of disparaging his cookery.
— from The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers by Rolf Boldrewood

Crawley stooped, and put his arms round his body to raise him up, but Edwards shrieked out, “Ah! don’t; that hurts!”
— from Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Lewis Hough