Dorothea sank back in her chair when her uncle had left the room, and cast her eyes down meditatively on her crossed hands.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Neither Manu, nor Plato, nor Confucius, nor the teachers of Judaism and Christianity, have ever doubted their right to falsehood.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The Little Shop-Window IT still lacked half an hour of sunrise, when Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon—we will not say awoke, it being doubtful whether the poor lady had so much as closed her eyes during the brief night of midsummer—but, at all events, arose from her solitary pillow, and began what it would be mockery to term the adornment of her person.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fina estera de junco cubre el piso, y las blancas paredes se 5 adornan con hermosas estampas de santos y algunas esculturas de dudoso valor artístico.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

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

When the age of the martyrdom of the so-called pagans came on, these formulæ became real, and the christians were still more confounded by finding that the worshippers of the Devil, as they thought them, could yield up their lives in many parts of Europe as [ 252 ] bravely for their faith as any christian had ever done.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before it its great congener.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Under the reign of Theodosius, after Christianity had enjoyed, during more than sixty years, the sunshine of Imperial favor, the ancient and illustrious church of Antioch consisted of one hundred thousand persons, three thousand of whom were supported out of the public oblations.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author himself knew.
— from Symposium by Plato

According to his own statement Miss Anthony confined her entire discourse to the one point of competitive labor.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

she asked, casting her eyes down.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

His countenance was pale, his beard thin, his expression sad; his lungs were delicate, yet he had a strong voice; his pronunciation was so clear and sweet as to attract attention; and modulating his speech more like that of a petitioner than a commander, he easily drew to himself the ears and minds of those who listened to him.
— from Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

"First: He ought to consecrate a certain hour every day to the study of a determined subject, as St. Bernard counselled his monks in his letter to the Brothers of the Mont Dieu.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Correct answers to puzzles have been received from " Ajax ," Jemima Beeston, Ray B., Josie Chesley, C. H. Cole, De Forest W. Chase, " Dollars and Cents ," Harry E. Dixon, Horace F. Fuller, W. K. Grithens, B. Goldenberg, Nellie P. Hazard, C. W. Hanner, Eddie Hequembourg, William Hadley, Willie C. Jones, Lucy C. Kellerhouse, Bessie Linn, " Lodestar ," Fannie and Katie Metzgar, " Pepper ," Carrie C. Pelham, "Pickwick," Torrance Parker, Augusta L. Parke , " Queen Bess ," Effie R., "Sir Tinly," Robert G. Steel, S. Ware Sheppard, G. P. Salters, Bell T. Smart, Addie and Arthur S. , Marion I. Wright, "Will A. Mette," Frank B. Westwood , Frank S. Willock.
— from Harper's Young People, May 17, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

"It cannot be forgot, indeed," replied Iola, and cast her eyes down thoughtfully.
— from The Woodman: A Romance of the Times of Richard III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Instead of being mere policemen, they rather do the work of detectives and policemen combined; for, by ably disguising themselves, they try to get on familiar terms with people about whom they are suspicious; and in many a case, after having become a bosom-friend of one of these officials and acknowledged and confessed his evil deeds to him, the culprit finds himself arrested and very likely beheaded.
— from Corea or Cho-sen: The Land of the Morning Calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Brown,—man of the brooding eye, the teeming brain, the deep and fervent heart,—if thy country prize thee not, and had almost lost thee out of sight, it is because her heart is made shallow and cold, her eye dim, by the pomp of circumstance, the love of gross outward gain.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

But as he thought of Mona a sudden shadow came across him; it was a mood he struggled with, and would fain have conquered, but it was one unconquerable, for it was a part of his dark fierce nature; and after pausing gloomily for several minutes, and, casting his eyes down upon the ground, with his whole feelings changed in a moment by one gloomy thought, he burst forth aloud, "I love it not!
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

She brought them to me, but everywhere the same foul marks; not only all the news from France, but even the local Vienna items were almost illegible to-day; lines had been cut out, words erased, and half a column had entirely disappeared.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach