I find it impossible not to expect some depth of soul behind a deep grey eye with a long dark eyelash, in spite of an experience which has shown me that they may go along with deceit, peculation, and stupidity.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

"She said," continued Hagar, "that she was requested to come by a dying girl, else she would have written the message [134] given to her.
— from Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

“I’ve always been a discontented grumbler ever since I’ve been here, Joe.
— from Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by George Manville Fenn

Dear Bahá’í Brother, At our beloved Guardian’s direction I gratefully acknowledge the receipt of your communications dated February 19th, March 7th and 27th, May 3rd with enclosures, written on behalf of the British N.S.A. He has noted with considerable satisfaction the report of the progress recently achieved in Bradford and Torquay where, he is most delighted to know, the friends, and particularly the newly enrolled young believers, are displaying great enthusiasm in their activities and have obtained many openings of presenting the Cause.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

Indeed, deep down in her strange, wayward heart, she had cared for him long before the memorable day when he had first looked at her with seeing eyes and realized that the quiet, unthought-of child who had been growing up at the old Phillips place had blossomed out into a woman of strange, seraph-like beauty and deep grey eyes whose expression was nevermore to go out of Stephen Fair's remembrance from then till the day of his death.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

At midnight the watchers who surrounded the coffin were startled by a deep groan emanating from it, and all but one, a German of the name of Wabbeking, rushed from the room.
— from Premature Burial and How It May Be Prevented by William Tebb

For example, in the discussion 338 about the Argentine Republic, your proper course would have been to say first, firmly, that the territory in question was not a part of the seceded States and had never been in the Union, with a brief and decided geographical explanation.
— from The Intellectual Life by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

These are separated by a deep groove, extending from the front to the back of the brain, known as the median fissure .
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

[1155] La Place, De Thou, letters of Beza, and des Gallars, etc., ubi supra .
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

She went to her coach with her father followed by a dozen gallants, each ready to spit the other for a smile.
— from A Lady of Quality Being a Most Curious, Hitherto Unknown History, as Related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but Not Presented to the World of Fashion Through the Pages of The Tatler, and Now for the First Time Written Down by Frances Hodgson Burnett