Thrice it arose, and lake and fell Three times returned the martial yell; It died upon Bochastle's plain, And Silence claimed her evening reign.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Fanny watched him with never-failing solicitude, and sometimes catching his eye, revived an affectionate smile, which comforted her; but the first day's journey passed without her hearing a word from him on the subjects that were weighing him down.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

A spire caught his eye, rising ghostly over the roofs.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

The Amîr slowly cast his eyes round the ring, and each heart beat high, as the Amîr’s eyes rested a moment on this man or that.
— from At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative by John Alfred Gray

As she cast her eyes round its dismal interior, marked the poor handful of embers that told of his long struggle with the cold, marked the one chair which he had saved—for to lie on the floor had been death—marked the beaten path that led from the chair to the window, and spoke of many an hour of painful waiting and of hope deferred, she saw the man in another, a more gentle, a more domestic aspect.
— from The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman

She saw her family perishing around her for want,—she felt it consuming her own vitals,—and as she cast her eye round the squalid room, the gold glittered brighter and brighter in her eye.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

When she lay in bed, although she closed her eyes resolutely, she could still see it.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

She smiled as she caught his eyes resting upon it unwillingly.
— from The Erratic Flame by Ysabel De Teresa

[127] The god accosts Bran, and sings to him a song concerning his Elysian realm beyond the sea.
— from An Irish Precursor of Dante A Study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the Eighth-century Irish Saint Adamnán, with Translation of the Irish Text by Charles Stuart Boswell