When I came to know this, and when I saw that he was becoming desperately in love, I insisted on this appeal to his friends before he either entangled Lucy in a promise, or even made any declaration himself.
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

He could not hear what she said, for the noise drowned her voice; but her earnest, eager look and her gesticulations told well enough that she was pointing them to the Saviour of sinners—with what effect, of course, he could not tell, but it was evident that the prisoners at least gave her their attention.
— from Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Barabant, astonished at the implacable ferocity of the crowd, turned to examine it, but his eye encountering Louison, remained there.
— from In the Name of Liberty: A Story of the Terror by Owen Johnson

Tell us, therefore, if you love your betrothed, Herr Ephraim?” Esther looked at her in amazement.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Uncle Nathaniel did not see it at first, but his eye ere long fell upon it, and, with a cry like that which broke from his lips when first he looked on his dead Fannie's hair, he caught it up, exclaiming, "'Tis her —'tis Fannie—my long-lost darling, come back to me from the other world.
— from Dora Deane; Or, The East India Uncle by Mary Jane Holmes

He would start from the house to the building at the end of the rose garden, as though moved by some clearly defined purpose--and then, for an hour or more, would dawdle among the things of his craft, with irresolute mind--turning over his sketches and drawings with uncertain hands, as though searching for something he knew was not there; toying with his paints and brushes; or sitting before his empty easel, looking away through the big window to the distant mountains.
— from The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright

green-gages Two words in title, but hyphenated everywhere else, left as printed.
— from The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years, 2nd ed. A work published by the order of the French minister of the interior, on the report of the Board of arts and manufactures by Nicolas Appert

He saw too the hamlets of the people, in the spaces between the forts of the Authority, all places of squalor with row upon row of boxlike houses, each exactly like the other.
— from Circle of Flight by Richard Stockham

He attempts to connect pullen with the archaic Eng. pullen , poultry; but his early examples, le pulein , polayn , etc., are of course Fr.
— from The Romance of Names by Ernest Weekley