As I mounted the estràde (a low platform, raised a step above the flooring), where stood the teacher's chair and desk, I beheld opposite to me a row of eyes and brows that threatened stormy weather—eyes full of an insolent light, and brows hard and unblushing as marble.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

] Note 44 ( return ) [ The emperor chides the lenity of Rogatian, consular of Tuscany in a style of acrimonious reproof, which sounds almost like personal resentment, (Novell.
— 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

He had established such a long prescriptive right to this deportment (his son's inheritance from his mother) that I several times knew both Caddy and her husband to be melted to tears by these affectionate self-sacrifices.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

On the wall hung a large picture representing black dragons, such as were seen in waiting chambers of the Sui dynasty.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

" So Meg reclined, with rubbers well hidden, and Jo went blundering away to the dining room, which she found after going into a china closet, and opening the door of a room where old Mr. Gardiner was taking a little private refreshment.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

There many a lofty palace rose Like Vindhya or the Lord of Snows, And with sweet murmur sparkling rills Leapt lightly down the sheltering hills.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

—Lion statant, lion passant guardant, and lion passant regardant, by Mr. G. W. Eve.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

At length a second and a nearer and a louder peal resounded, and the rain descended as from a bucket.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The house was a low-eaved structure built of undressed blocks of red Island sandstone, with a little peaked roof out of which peered two dormer windows, with quaint wooden hoods over them, and two great chimneys.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

CHAPTER IV [...32] "I suppose you have heard the news, Basil?" said Lord Henry on the following evening, as Hallward was shown into a little private room at the Bristol where dinner had been laid for three.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

By Capt. Marryat , C.B. Printed for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, Paternoster Row. 1839.
— from Excursions in Victorian Bibliography by Michael Sadleir

A Little Puritan Rebel.
— from Our Little Dutch Cousin by Blanche McManus

For Mr. Cabell had spent a life, practically, reaching from the imagination of childhood to the performance of maturity, in a mental preoccupation with disembodied purity.
— from San Cristóbal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer

Just as we left town, two narrow and lofty parallel rocks suggested a gate-way.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

As regards the dress of the prince and his ministers, the prince wore a long purple robe, set with silver stars wrought in needle-work; under this robe he had a tunic of bright silk of a blue or hyacinthine color; this was open about the breast, where there appeared the forepart of a kind of zone or ribbon, with the ensign of his society; the badge was an eagle sitting on her young at the top of a tree; this was wrought in polished gold set with diamonds.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

( pulling out of his pocket a long paper rolled up, and presenting it to Angélique ).
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

Having agreeably occupied her mind with subjects that were worthy of it, Mrs. Gallilee rose to seek a little physical relief by walking up and down the room.
— from Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins