She flattered, cajoled and contradicted him, employing that subtle, deceptive art of refined coquetry to which a sensitive nature like the Captain's was most susceptible.
— from When Dreams Come True by Ritter Brown

It was a long time before he could again close his eyes to sleep; he at length fell into a slumber, and again he dreamed.
— from Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American Tale by I. (Isaac) Mitchell

An instant later, he had dropped down at his desk and buried his face within the circle of his clasped arms, covering his ears to shut out the echo of his wife's accusing words.
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray

But something in his look, as he stood fronting her, brought the color to her cheeks and caused her eyes to sink.
— from Brooke's Daughter: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

She still scorned the plutocratic multiplication of flowers until they seemed to rattle like the dollars they stood for, but the table looked very beautiful, and the silver and china and crystal had endured through several generations.
— from Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

At last Hanzli bethought him of a large wheel-barrow, which lay under a shed close by; and bringing it out, he placed his master in it, and wheeled him down a by-road which led behind the village; while the gigantic effort of this superhuman undertaking bent his back into a C, and caused his eyes to start almost out of their sockets.
— from Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 by Mór Jókai