He closed his eyes, and the signs of approaching dissolution multiplied rapidly.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Again, he tells us that once Ammonius, observing at his afternoon lecture that some of his class had indulged too freely in the pleasures of the table, ordered his own son to be flogged, "because," he said, "the young gentleman cannot eat his dinner without pickles," casting his eye at the same time upon the other offenders so as to make them sensible that the reproof applied to them also.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

He was obliged to continue his expedition all the summer, and as soon as he departed the Queen-mother sent her daughter-in-law to a country house among the woods, that she might with the more ease gratify her horrible longing.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Now there need be no obstacle to the passionate expansion of my soul, but it is in the silence and solitude of my house, without the joys, smiles, sparkling wit, and poetical atmosphere you and your son spread before my dazzled eyes, during the splendid fortnight I spent with you both; so true is it that one cannot have everything at the same time here below, and that perfect happiness is attained only in Heaven.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Thenichka's amazement caused her eyes almost to start from her head, and her nervousness completely to vanish.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

His biographer ought to have marked, with more care, his exploits, and the successive steps of his military promotions.
— 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

The rage of the Arabs confirmed his evidence; and the self-devoted patriot was transpierced with a hundred spears.
— 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

The great wolf cocked his ears at the sound, and gazed at the man inquiringly for a second or two.
— from Hoof and Claw by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

Vainly she strove against the recurring horror; once or twice, unconsciously, her hands crept upward and closed her ears, as though she could shut out what was dinning in her brain.
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

A deathly faintness seized her; she closed her eyes, and then she felt herself falling, falling——
— from The Liberty Girl by Rena I. Halsey

So David learned his trade, and completed his education at the same time, and Didot's foreman became a scholar; and yet when he left Paris at the end of 1819, summoned home by his father to take the helm of business, he had not cost his parent a farthing.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

He was on a rock, swaying his body for a plunge, when something caught his eye among the shadows at the bottom.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

But I was cramming his ear against the stomach of his sense.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott

On coming home to our cottage he espied a tiny speck of light on one of the doorposts.
— from Michael Faraday, Man of Science by Walter Jerrold

He could smell in her breath the perfume of wild honey, mixed with the pollen and nectar of wild flowers; and she would close her eyes as though she herself were intoxicated with it.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø