As soon as they had greeted each other - K. had invited him to sit in the armchair but Uncle Karl had no time for that - he said he wanted to speak briefly with K. in private.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Is this too a blot upon King Lear as a stage-play?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Thus taught the French Academy of that time (apud Braun , Ueber Kosmogonie, 3d ed., 1905, 378 seq. ).
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

Both women idolized the bright nephew, Justus, who loved his aunts in the abstract, but usually kept as far away from Aunt Jane’s broom as possible.
— from A Country Idyl, and Other Stories by Sarah Knowles Bolton

After determining the death point in this manner and finding it to be much lower than had been supposed, it was decided to make the test again, but using ketchup as the medium.
— from Experiments on the Spoilage of Tomato Ketchup by A. W. (Arvill Wayne) Bitting

Lamb got tipsy and blew up Kingston—proceeding so far as to take the candle across the room, hold it to his face, and show us what a soft fellow
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

Don Giovanni then proceeds to enter the house and seize Zerlina; but before he can accomplish his purpose, Masetto and his friends appear, and supposing it is Leporello before them, demand to know where his master is, as they are bent upon killing him.
— from The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

In that case I understand that they are bent upon keeping them in that useful state of blessed ignorance.
— from Mademoiselle de Maupin, Volume 1 (of 2) by Théophile Gautier

Jogendra Nath Bhattacharya in his Hindu Castes and Sects says (p. 364) that aristocratic Brahmans usually keep in their private chapels both a salâgram representing Vishṇu and emblems representing Śiva and his spouse.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

the class to which the Allens belong, unless kept up by some rich relations, are soon almost desperate from want.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

Till then a thousand times adieu.— [ Blowing up kisses to her .
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn