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about her ears RIVERS and

Enter QUEEN ELIZABETH, with her hair about her ears; RIVERS and DORSET after her QUEEN ELIZABETH.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

a half en route and

Pleasant it was, even though the coachman—having spent in the shop of a "marchand de vin" a portion of the time we passed at the concert—drove us along the dark and solitary chaussée far past the turn leading down to La Terrasse; we, who were occupied in talking and laughing, not noticing the aberration till, at last, Mrs. Bretton intimated that, though she had always thought the château a retired spot, she did not know it was situated at the world's end, as she declared seemed now to be the case, for she believed we had been an hour and a half en route, and had not yet taken the turn down the avenue.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

and his early recollections and

Then he passed on under the shade of blooming chestnut-trees, through vineyards, and fields of Indian corn, till conscious that the mountains were as a wall between him and his early recollections; and he wished it to be so.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

armchair his elbow rested as

Stern and silent, he had resumed his seat in his great armchair; his elbow rested as usual, on the table, and his brow on his hand.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

and his escort rapped at

Next, Chichikov and his escort rapped at the doors of the Department of Estate Affairs; but that Department’s quarters happened to be in a state of repair, and no one could be made to answer the summons save a drunken peasant from whom not a word of sense was to be extracted.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

and he earnestly recommends all

‘everye man and his queane are first acquainted;’ and he earnestly recommends all women to stay away from these ‘places of suspition’ (pp. 48 f.).
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

and her eyes red as

And then, to my undoing, the daughter, Marya Fedosyevna, came in, in all her innocence, a little pale and her eyes red as though she had been weeping.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

as his eye ranged along

A spectator standing at one end of it, as his eye ranged along the deep vista of temples, terraces, and gardens, might clearly discern the other, with the blue mountains in the distance, which, in the transparent atmosphere of the table-land, seemed almost in contact with the buildings.”
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

and his eye ran absently

Nick picked up one of the London journals, and his eye ran absently down the list of social events.
— from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

all his enemies round about

Behold, a son shall be born to you, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness to Israel in his days: 022:010 he shall build a house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever. 022:011
— from The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Chronicles by Anonymous

about her engagement ring and

They had gone home for their Easter holidays much thrilled about her engagement ring, and had returned to school to find her a war bride, with her husband already in the trenches.
— from A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

and his eyes red and

He found Walter sitting at a corner of the room, his head resting against the angle of the wall, and his eyes red and inflamed with long crying.
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

and his early rising a

In the meantime we may take notice that where the poet ought to have preserv’d the character as it was deliver’d to us by antiquity, when he should have given us the picture of a rough young man, of the Amazonian strain, a jolly huntsman, and both by his profession and his early rising a mortal enemy to love, he has chosen to give him the turn of gallantry, sent him to travel from Athens to Paris, taught him to make love, and transformed the Hippolytus of Euripides into Monsieur Hippolyte.
— from Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

and his earnest request at

Wherein I trust my Lord Chancellor* will join with you, if it content you to move him thereunto, who, by words of marvellous effect comprising both the Queen's commandment that I should enter into it, and his earnest request at that time also, did cause me to take in hand the same.
— from Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone

alarm her eyes rolled and

Speeding on, they turned a curve so sharply that Aunt Sukey was wild with alarm; her eyes rolled, and her teeth glistened from ear to ear, as, with mouth distended, she screamed, "Oh, Marse Tommy, fo' de Lor's sake, hole in dat beast!
— from Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

at his earnest request attired

Greenway returned with Bates, at his earnest request, attired in “coulored satten done with gould lace,” and was met by Catesby with the exclamation— “Here is a gentleman who will live and die with us!”
— from It Might Have Been: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Emily Sarah Holt

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