"None but a compatriot," his Excellency declared, "could have performed that majestic dance in such a way.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

She blushed and cast her eyes down in such a sweet fashion that he really longed to kiss the lids.
— from A Modern Cinderella by Amanda M. Douglas

"I see," said Beatrice; and cast her eyes down again.
— from The King's Achievement by Robert Hugh Benson

The reciprocal process of transmitting weather intelligence to vessels by wireless bulletins, broadcasted at certain hours every day by high-powered radio stations, has made much more progress.
— from Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

Gilbert leaned back and closed his eyes, drinking in the sun-sweetened air and the scent of the flowers that grew in the cloister garden; and the indescribable sense of peace descended upon his body and soul which comes to men wrested from death, when danger is passed and their strength is slowly growing again within them.
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

There must be a chapter headed ‘Early Days,’ or ‘Home Life,’ or something of that kind in every biography.
— from General John Regan by George A. Birmingham

“I would refer you to my father,” said Alice, blushing and casting her eyes down; but instantly raising them again, she repeated, in a firmer and a sadder tone, “Yes, Julian, I would refer you to my father; and you would find that your pilot, Hope, had deceived you; and that you had but escaped the quicksands to fall upon the rocks.”
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

She leaned back and closed her eyes, determined to become indispensable to him in a far greater degree than Miss Knowlton and Miss MacVane together.
— from Ellen Levis: A Novel by Elsie Singmaster

It was the penalty Master Austin had to pay for being the particular and bosom friend of each of the one hundred and eighty bluejackets that made up the crew of the British man-of-war Curaçoa ; for, whether it was due to some bitter memories of the Revolutionary war, or to some rankling reminiscences of 1812, that even friendship could not altogether stifle (for Austin was a true American boy), they annoyed him by giving him, each one of them, a separate name.—[L.O.] 19 The big conch-shell that was blown at certain hours every day.—[L.O.] 20 Mrs. R. L. S., as she is called in Samoan, “the lady.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

And also, by dilating and contracting at the poles, in consequence of inclination to the radial stream, (just as the earth’s atmosphere is bulged out sufficiently to affect the barometer at certain hours every day,) give that peculiarity of form in certain positions of the planet in its orbit.
— from Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence by Thomas Bassnett