Bonacieux looked earnestly at the young man.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

“And now,” resumed Buckingham, looking earnestly at the young man, “how shall I ever acquit myself of the debt I owe you?”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

He has been long enough among the “yellerbellies” to have learnt their language.
— from The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid

This is a bad way of beginning life, especially at too young an age to be up to its philosophy; and the only thing that can save such a man is a tremendous illness, or the downright love of a first-rate woman.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Barbara looked earnestly at the youth as he gave this brief account of himself, but she made no further observation, for they had reached the streets of Boston, and from the novelty of the scene, or some deeper cause, she grew silent and walked forward with a reluctant, heavy step, apparently forgetful of the questions she had been asking.
— from Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

CHAPTER V Summers and winters slipped by lazily enough, as the years seemed always to crawl round at Norton Bury.
— from John Halifax, Gentleman by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

But to convince you that selfish feeling does not entirely engross me I shall remain in this town untill you have made by letter every arrangement that you judge necessary.
— from Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley