Smike glanced round, and his eye rested, for an instant, on Nicholas, as if he had expected him to intercede; but his look was riveted on his desk. ‘Have you anything to say?’ demanded Squeers again: giving his right arm two or three flourishes to try its power and suppleness.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

But all of a sudden he noticed at the end of the table Celeste's child on a woman's lap, and his eye remained fixed on the little boy.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

" The Commandant turned pale for a moment, and his eyes remained fixed on the ground.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

I was introduced immediately, and I was greatly surprised to find her sitting up in bed, her countenance flushed and excited, and her eyes red from the tears she had evidently just been shedding.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

When the girls got back to Echo Lodge they found that Miss Lavendar and Paul had carried the little square table out of the kitchen to the garden and had everything ready for tea.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Satisfied with the private toleration of his Arian sectaries, he justly conceived himself to be the guardian of the public worship, and his external reverence for a superstition which he despised, may have nourished in his mind the salutary indifference of a statesman or philosopher.
— 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

Left the same day with staff and headquarters and am here en route for Cairo." VOLUME II.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

“This was a sore and great trial to Willie Robertson, but he consoled himself for his disappointment with the thought that Saunders could not live long, and that he would go and prepare a place for his Jean, and have everything ready for her reception against the old man died.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

I implored her; but she only moaned a little, and her eyes remained fast shut.
— from The Talking Horse, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

It concludes thus:— 'I write now in all haste, en route for Paris.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This he caught from the earth and cast it at his enemy, running forward as he cast.
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

Mirtilla perceived his old father slumbering in the moonbeams.... Mirtilla stood long contemplating him, and his eyes rested fondly on the old man except when he raised them toward heaven through the glistening leaves of the vine, and tears of filial love and joy bedewed his cheeks.... How beautiful!
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

A sound judgment of our own characters essential to moral improvement Analogies between character and taste The strongest desire generally prevails, but desires may be modified Passions and habits Exaggerated regard for the future.—A happy childhood Choice of pleasures.—Athletic games
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

So did Henry V. till 1420, after which date he adopted the form, “Henricus, D.G. rex Angliæ, hæres et regens Franciæ, et dominus Hiberniæ.”
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

His nose had at one time been broken, and his eyes rolled fiercely beneath shaggy black eyebrows.
— from A Secret of the Lebombo by Bertram Mitford

Some one will need to wash the cups and saucers, and have 'em ready for supper."
— from The Grammar School Boys Snowbound; or, Dick & Co. at Winter Sports by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

At last I got to understand as his eyes repeatedly fell upon me without the slightest sign of recognition, that he did not intend to claim my acquaintance.
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

he said, and his eyes rested full upon her with a questioning gaze--but he rose with dignity, instead of rushing to meet her, as he would formerly have greeted the woman he loved, had she suddenly appeared before him.
— from On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern