He continued lounging on the sofa, and alternately closing his eyes and looking at his watch and at me, till bed-time, when I rose, and took my candle and retired.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

When he came home there were no lights in the house, but his mother appeared and clutched him eagerly in her arms.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Pierre was no longer able to turn away and close his eyes.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

How Merlin ‘went about doing good,’ after [ 398 ] the Northman’s ideal of such work; how he saved the life of his unwedded mother by proving that her child (himself) was begotten by a devil without her knowledge; how, as a child, he exposed at once the pretension of the magistrate to high birth and the laxity of his lady and his parson; how he humiliated the priestly astrologers of Vortigern, and prophesied the destruction of that usurper just as it came to pass; how he served Uther during his seven years’ reign, and by enabling him to assume the shape of the Duke of Cornwall and so enjoy the embraces of the Duchess Igerna, secured the birth of Arthur and hope of the Sangréal;
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

what fault do you find with her?” Alexey Alexandrovitch frowned, and almost closing his eyes, dropped his head.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It will be seen that the pieces A and C have each twenty chequers, and are therefore of equal area.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

A. Prima salutantes atque altera conterit hora; Exercet raucos tertia causidicos; In quintam varies extendit Roma labores; 4 Sexta quies lassis; septima finis erit; Sufficit in nonam nitidis octava palaestris; Imperat exstructos frangere nona toros; Hora libellorum decima est, Eupheme, meorum, 8 Temperat ambrosias cum tua cura dapes
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Deniska, who had finished munching, stretched himself out on his back and also closed his eyes.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He lay down again and covered his ears that he might not hear her sobbing, and he suddenly remembered that he could go to Samoylenko.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Till this moment, I had been so intent on watching them, their appearance and conversation had excited in me so keen an interest, I had half-forgotten my own wretched position: now it recurred to me.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Certainly if the affair had only concerned a free distribution of sword-thrusts, the musketeer would have counted upon his companion; but in delicate dealings with a king, when the perhaps of an unlucky chance should arise in justification of Monk or of Charles of England, D'Artagnan knew Athos well enough to be sure he would give the best possible coloring to the loyalty of the survivor, and would content himself with shedding floods of tears on the tomb of the dead, supposing the dead to be his friend, and afterwards composing his epitaph in the most pompous superlatives.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

She said nothing more, but settled herself again and closed her eyes.
— from Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews

For many years the Caucasian Administration and Command had enjoyed a certain degree of autonomy.
— from The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political by Anton Ivanovich Denikin

For answer Theron laid his head down upon his arm, and closed his eyes, and held his face against the draperies encircling her.
— from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

Baynell was in full uniform, splendidly mounted, awaiting the hour appointed, and now and again casting his eye on the camp "street" at some
— from The Storm Centre: A Novel by Mary Noailles Murfree

The head of Suarez, the mate, appeared above an after companionway, his eyes flashing with [Pg 59] anger.
— from A Voyage with Captain Dynamite by Charles Edward Rich

During this time it is said that he visited her at a certain hour each day, the people in the neighborhood setting their clocks by his appearance.
— from Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) by Hugo P. (Hugo Paul) Thieme

Under the terms of his grandfather’s will, Glenarm is required to reside for a year at a curious house established by John Marshall Glenarm near Lake Annandale, Indiana.
— from The House of a Thousand Candles by Meredith Nicholson

“I guess so,” the woman answered, and closed her eyes, III.
— from The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler

Chuck gave her the sides without a word, and after closing her eyes for a moment, Peggy took a deep breath and looked.
— from Peggy Goes Straw Hat by Virginia Hughes