His brown eyes held a tender expression of kindness.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens

During the Long Parliament Milton wrote many political pamphlets attacking the Episcopacy, and later, when Charles I. had been executed, he answered the “Eikon Basilike” of Gauden with his famous “Eikonoclastes.”
— from Poems You Ought to Know by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

As can be expected, he awaited the eventful day with growing impatience.
— from Yankee Boys in Japan; Or, The Young Merchants of Yokohama by Henry Harrison Lewis

It was natural that at such a time, when success greater than had been expected had attended the efforts of the Liberals, when some dozen unexpected votes had been acquired, the leading politicians of that party should have found themselves compelled to look about them and see how these good things might be utilised.
— from The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

Nothing loath apparently, Baubie established herself at the end of the fender, and from that coign of vantage watched the on-goings about her with the stoicism of a red Indian.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

One would naturally suppose that in Brazil the weather would be extremely hot as the equator runs across the great Amazon valley.
— from Birdseye Views of Far Lands by James T. (James Thomas) Nichols

Next a woman, leading a young boy by either hand, approached the edge of the roof.
— from Lords of the World: A story of the fall of Carthage and Corinth by Alfred John Church

But Elizabeth had acquired the economy habit.
— from Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Albert Bigelow Paine