A propos, a certain Hofrath Effeln sends you his kind regards; he is one of the best Hofraths here, and would long ago have been made chancellor but for one defect—TIPPLING.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Anna Pávlovna almost closed her eyes to indicate that neither she nor anyone else had a right to criticize what the Empress desired or was pleased with.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

she exclaimed, seeing the girl turn alarmingly pale and close her eyes as if she were about to swoon.
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

But to say that one actually plans and controls his expenditures along various lines by the ultimate aim of attaining equivalent terminal utilities on each is quite another story.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

The Misses, who had gathered round, and were standing gaping in joyful expectation of Pope Joan, or a pool at commerce, here exchanged sorrowful glances.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

He works his way against the wind as much as possible, and, casting his eyes in every direction, is always on the alert.
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

The warmth and vivacity of Juliet's fancy, which plays like a light over every part of her character—which animates every line she utters—which kindles every thought into a picture, and clothes her emotions in visible images, would naturally, under strong and unusual excitement, and in the conflict of opposing sentiments, run into some extravagance of diction."
— from Shakespeare's Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

This belief that all persons are caring, however, entails a commitment to know self and other as caring person.
— from Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice by Savina O'Bryan Schoenhofer

He stretched himself luxuriously on the windward side of the fire, arranged half a dozen ducks and auks under his head as a pillow, and closed his eyes.
— from The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

He drew back a pace and contemplated his enemy witheringly.
— from Sube Cane by Bellamy Partridge

It lay one night at the abbey, and, whilst that is almost obliterated, the cross remains almost perfect after centuries have elapsed, and served mainly as the model for that which has recently been erected close to Charing Cross, where formerly another of these memorials marked the last halt of the royal funereal cortege.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various