He supported himself by a single crutch, his eyes were covered by a shade, and his lower lip, half averted, hung pale and pink from his decaying yellow teeth.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

begin:bar “Affectionately, “Susanne Craig Hamilton.” end:bar end:blockquote Marjorie raised her head from the reading of this comforting letter, her whole face radiant with returned good cheer.
— from Marjorie Dean, Post-Graduate by Josephine Chase

31–32 The Pass of Thermopylae 33 The Pass of Thermopylae Xerxes once led a million soldiers out of Persia in an effort to capture Greece, but his invasion failed utterly, because a Spartan captain had entrenched a hundred men in a narrow mountain pass, which controlled the road into Lacedaemon.
— from The Clock that Had no Hands And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising by Herbert Kaufman

It all fused into a blur; and she closed her eyes and gave herself up to the novel sensations stimulated by her first ride in a carriage propelled––she knew not how.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

She produced a pink flush on her cheeks and dainty ears; she marked rose petals on her bosom, and she colored her elbows and the harmoniously curving relievo of her dimpled sides.
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Then the odd feeling of faintness came back, and she closed her eyes again and lay motionless, forgetful of time, place, or hunger.
— from Seven Little Australians by Ethel Sybil Turner

The night darkened, and the shadows of the buildings and shipping crossed her eyes, but she stirred not.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

“Done!” repeated aunt Betsey, as she closed her eyes, and leaning back in her chair, rocked nervously to and fro—“yes; don’t you know about it?”
— from Hesper, the Home-Spirit: A simple story of household labor and love by Lizzie Doten

And because his base and servile condition, had endued him with so much understanding, as to know infallibly, that his affection was mounted, beyond the compasse of conveniencie; wisely hee concealed it to himselfe, not acquainting any one therewith, or daring so much, as to discover it either by lookes, or any other affectionate behaviour.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

"Well, it seemed to me that this piece of news stumped mother a bit, although she closed her eyes in that trance-like, oblivious way of hers and affected never to have heard of a Mrs. Jerome.
— from The Love Chase by Felix Grendon

I say, it is the widest of all, for all others put no great difference between men as men, they do reach the peculiar excellency of a man, that is, the true, and proper, good of his spiritual and immortal part, they are such as befall alike to good and bad, and so cannot have either much good or much evil in them.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning