For granting that this ‘evolution’—as the name implies—is not merely a process from old to new, but a progress from less to more of certain definite characteristics; it is surely absurd to maintain that we ought therefore to take these characteristics as Ultimate Good, and make it our whole endeavour to accelerate the arrival of an inevitable future.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The darkness was so complete that I could not even see Captain Nemo; but, looking to the zenith, exactly above my head, I seemed to catch an undecided gleam, a kind of twilight filling a circular hole.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Therefore, now, Dame Campan whisks assiduous to this mantua-maker and to that: and there is clipping of frocks and gowns, upper clothes and under, great and small; such a clipping and sewing, as might have been dispensed with.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Mombi cast an uneasy glance at the Sorceress, and saw that she was in earnest, and not to be trifled with.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Confusion and uncertainty grew apace, as those in command could not maintain their authority.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

Under the pretence of sickness, he dismounted in the night, and was allowed to step aside from the troop: he planted in the ground his long staff, clothed it with his cap and upper garment; and, stealing into the wood, left a phantom to amuse, for some time, the eyes of the Walachians.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

At last the Malay shook his head, shrugged thin shoulders under his cotton shirt, and cast an uneasy glance at Briggs, looming black-bearded and angry at his side.
— from Cursed by George Allan England

It was no wonder, perhaps, that he looked wan and weary, yet the master passing by paused and cast an uneasy glance at him.
— from The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London by Evelyn Everett-Green

After a little while, pausing beside a doorway, she casts an upward glance at her companion.
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

“Well, she don’t have to, if she don’t want to,” Sadie retorted, but she cast an uneasy glance at the silent figure by the fire.
— from The Torch Bearer: A Camp Fire Girls' Story by I. T. (Ida Treadwell) Thurston

McKinstry cast an uneasy glance around the apartment, and not seeing Mrs. McKinstry looked relieved, and even the deep traces of the loss of a valuable steer that morning partly faded from his Indian-red complexion.
— from Cressy by Bret Harte

But"--and he cast an uneasy glance at his wife--"but remember that it was but a dream , and no man can answer for his dreams."
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Felix Dahn