His slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual strength of body and of character.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Before you talk of a historical event like the foundation of a nationality, you must first understand what you mean by it,” he admonished him in stern, incisive tones.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I want you to come with me," he said briefly, and his eyes looked over the boy's head into the sky.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Anne's terror of being discovered in London or its neighbourhood, whenever they ventured to walk out, had gradually communicated itself to Mrs. Clements, and she had determined on removing to one of the most out-of-the-way places in England—to the town of Grimsby in Lincolnshire, where her deceased husband had passed all his early life.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Let Venus go and chuck her dainty page, And kiss his mouth, and toss his curly hair, With net and spear and hunting equipage Let young Adonis to his tryst repair,
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

But then when all seemed ripe and ready, and there appeared a probability of the “Independence of the House of Lords” being again the favourite toast of conservative dinners, the oddest rumour in the world got about, which threw such a ridicule on these great constitutional movements in petto, that even with the Buckhounds in the distance and Tadpole at his elbow, Lord Marney hesitated.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

but his words, were they not 20 feathered from my wings, and flew in singing at her ears, like arrows tipt with gold?
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

His heart must be quite callous, and his ear lost to all distinction, who could hear such harmony without emotion; how deeply, then, must it have affected the delicate Celinda, whose sensations, naturally acute, were whetted to a most painful keenness by her apprehension; who could have no previous idea of such entertainment, and was credulous enough to believe the most improbable tale of superstition!
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

That feline personage, with her lips tightly shut and her eyes looking out at him sideways, softly closes the door before replying.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I believe that Jesus is our High Priest for ever and hath an unchangeable priesthood, wherefore he is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, for he is the one Mediator between God and man, and he ever liveth to make intercession with the Father for us; and he is the propitiation for our sins, and to him be glory with the Father and his Holy Spirit of life for ever and ever— Amen.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

We will have one great banner that will go in front, it will take two men to carry it, and on it we will have Laughter, with his iron claws and his wings of brass and his eyes like sapphires—— Aloysius.
— from Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

All the sweet domestic comfort which he had missed seemed suddenly to toss above his eyes like the one desired fruit of his whole life; its wonderful unknown flavor tantalized his soul.
— from Pembroke: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

As her eyes lowered themselves to the book, his fastened upon her face.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

Now he makes direct mention of her, and seeks to be in her company; and he even leads us to infer that it was owing to his poems that she became a well-known personage in the streets of Florence.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

of where the tiles had not fallen off, with her poor rags for her only 77 covering; but as her eyes looked up into Daniel’s face bending over her a bright smile of joy sparkled in them.
— from Jessica's First Prayer; and, Jessica's Mother by Hesba Stretton

There, Séverine also welcomed him with gaiety, uttering an exclamation as soon as he entered, like a woman bestirred by a thrill of pleasure.
— from The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola

What a pretty mouth the soda-fountain girl had—like coral; and her eyes like gray seas.
— from The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst

Yet there was something about Luigi Beltrami which I liked; and in spite of his affected cynicism and his extraordinarily loose notions of right and wrong, I believe that he had a sincere regard for me, which regard I considered not the least curious part of his whimsical nature, seeing that my character was the antithesis of his own in every way.
— from A Creature of the Night: An Italian Enigma by Fergus Hume