That she was seeing with different eyes and making the acquaintance of new conditions in herself that colored and changed her environment, she did not yet suspect.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

When he did recognize his chum and companion his evident satisfaction was affecting.
— from Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson

Gen. Garfield heard the Jubilee Singers when he was at Chautauqua, and closed his eloquent speech with this beautiful tribute: “I heard yesterday and last night the songs of those who were lately redeemed from slavery, and I felt that there, too, was one of the great triumphs of the republic.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 10, October, 1880 by Various

And so, having supplemented his researches in print, by listening to the discourses of many teachers, from one end of London to the other in lecture-hall, chapel, and church, having even stood among the crowds which gather around itinerant preachers in the Park, Dominic found his thought fixing itself with deepening assurance upon the communion in which he had been born and baptised, which his father, in the interests of the revolutionary propaganda, had so bitterly repudiated, and from which his mother, broken by the tyranny of circumstance and bodily weakness, had lapsed.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

Arthur sat at the helm, pale, but quite calm and collected, his eyes steadfastly fixed on the advancing column, while Johnny crouched at his side, holding fast one of his hands in both his own.
— from The Island Home by Richard Archer

At this thought she subsided against the cushions, and closed her eyes smiling softly.
— from Miss Maitland, Private Secretary by Geraldine Bonner

He was originally destined for the Church, and commenced his early studies with that object in view.
— from A Short History of English Music by Ernest Ford

Non enim homo contemplatione aliarum creaturarum habet esse sed contra.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

They saw some cursed Mongol leaning out through the window of the closed car, and could have either shot him or put a bullet so close that his aim would have been disturbed.
— from Number Seventeen by Louis Tracy