She crouched on the floor like a wounded thing, and Dorian Gray, with his beautiful eyes, looked down at her, and his chiselled lips curled in exquisite disdain.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

For if the child ever went anyways wrong, and you hadn't done your part by it, Master Marner—'noculation, and everything to save it from harm—it 'ud be a thorn i' your bed for ever o' this side the grave; and I can't think as it 'ud be easy lying down for anybody when they'd got to another world, if they hadn't done their part by the helpless children as come wi'out their own asking.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

brōðorlufu (-er) love , DR. brōðorrǣden f. fellowship, brotherhood , Æ: membership of a brotherhood .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The Siceliots, again, to take them as they are at present, in the event of a Syracusan conquest (the favourite bugbear of the Egestaeans), would to my thinking be even less dangerous to us than before.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

At the time, I devoted three days to the studious digesting of all this beer, beef, and bread, during which many profound thoughts were incidentally suggested to me, capable of a transcendental and Platonic application; and, furthermore, I compiled supplementary tables of my own, touching the probable quantity of stock-fish, etc., consumed by every Low Dutch harpooneer in that ancient Greenland and Spitzbergen whale fishery.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Upon the dispersion of mankind, this was branched out into dialects; and those again were subdivided: all which varied every age, not only in respect to one another; but each language differed from itself more and more continually.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Thank you very, very much!" Meg spoke earnestly, and forgot herself entirely till something in the brown eyes looking down at her made her remember the cooling tea, and lead the way into the parlor, saying she would call her mother.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

But eager love denies the least delay. Let softer cares the present hour employ, And be these moments sacred all to joy.
— from The Iliad by Homer

There were gardens and paths and big trees, but everything looked dull and wintry.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

She was old enough to notice things, and the baby eyes looked delightedly at her feet, that had never worn shoes before, now so beautifully adorned in the gayest of colours.
— from Everlasting Pearl: One of China's Women by Anna Magdalena Johannsen

Last night at eleven came B. expressing like doubts; and though they may be absurd I thought them worth attention, B. coming so close on Greeley."
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

I reply: It is an article of belief, expressly laid down by the Council of Lateran, that whatever is in fact and at present, was made in the origin of the world.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

The sound came nearer and nearer, and just when our nerves were at breaking point two bright eyes looked down at us over the edge of the little hollow we were in—it was a hedgehog.
— from Into the Jaws of Death by Jack O'Brien

'Now, who sent you down here to track us out and peach upon us; eh, Bob?' 'Nobody sent me,' Hiram replied, with his blue eyes looking deep back into the trapper's keen restless grey pair.
— from Babylon, Volume 1 by Grant Allen

Sorel: Bonaparte et Hoche; Bonaparte et le Directoire ; also articles in the Revue Historique , 1885.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

What is your name?" Erick with his bright eyes looked directly into those of the strange gentleman, and without hesitation he said: "Erick Dorn.
— from Erick and Sally by Johanna Spyri