He was dining with the Randalls family, and Jane, at the Eltons'; and he had seen a look, more than a single look, at Miss Fairfax, which, from the admirer of Miss Woodhouse, seemed somewhat out of place.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The sight of the extraordinary dimensions of the matter she had voided now suggested the idea that if her apparently very small and rosy-lipped bottom-hole could allow so large a mass to come out, with gentle efforts my scarcely larger machine might be inserted.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I saw the big tears rise thick in her eyes, and fall slowly over her cheeks as she looked at me.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

On Nicholas stopping to salute them, Mr. Lenville laughed a scornful laugh, and made some general remark touching the natural history of puppies.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

it's nothing," she said, and she looked at me with her tear-stained eyes.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And so long as mankind were content to combat one enemy by another, and to be ruled by a master, on condition of being guaranteed more or less efficaciously against his tyranny, they did not carry their aspirations beyond this point.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Strickland had found his hat, and stood looking at me.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

And so long as mortal life itself remains, you have the greatest of blessings, one outweighing far all gold and silver and all the misfortunes you may endure.
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther

He threw himself into the chair again, sighed like a man in utter desperation, and ran his hands through his hair.
— from In Paradise: A Novel. Vol. II by Paul Heyse

He was commonly called Pesce-cola, or Fish-Nicholas, and is said to have lived so much in the water from his infancy, that he could cleave the waters in the midst of a storm like a marine animal.
— from Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Oh, but that was all so long ago," Maud said quickly.
— from Charles Rex by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

But, in the artistic sense, literature, at most, has been locally illustrated by a few eminent names.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

if she knowed what splendid lobscouse an’ plum duff I kin make,” returned the negro, “Ranny Valony would hab sent me a silk lamba an’ made me her chief cook.
— from The Fugitives: The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The colour came strong in her face, and she looked at me and nodded.
— from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

A single look at Milady apprised him of all that was passing in her mind.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas