They indeed have no constitutional objections to being seen; the thin veil enhances their charms, and the observer who sees their painted faces and bright languishing eyes, no doubt gives them credit for as much beauty as they possess; and as they flash by, I suppose that every one, is convinced that he has seen one of the mysterious Circassian or Georgian beauties.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

He was called; but Lord Elmwood, now disgusted at the scene, withdrew to the further end of the room, and left Sandford to question them.
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

He rose as he saw me—a short, crop-haired, clean-shaven, ruddy, jockey-faced man of fifty-five, the corners of his thin lips, usually curled up in a cheery smile, now piteously drawn down, and his bright little eyes now dim like those of a dead bird.
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke

He did not go back to Cornwall before leaving England, nor did he send a single line or message to any one there.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 90, June, 1875 by Various

But long ere noon, dark grew the skies, Pale grew the shrinking sun: "How soon," he said, "for clouds to rise When day was but begun!"
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald