how delicious the memory of it!—I caught him escaping from his grave, and thrust him back into it.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Having, then, thoroughly ruminated Quasimodo’s affair, he threw back his head and half closed his eyes, for the sake of more majesty and impartiality, so that, at that moment, he was both deaf and blind.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

And there were times in the evenings when she was upstairs, perhaps, and everybody else was down, when she could hardly escape from them.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Her prettiness was still visible in the darkness; she was opening and closing her enormous fan.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

They lighted a candle and saw that Smerdyakov was no better, that he was writhing in convulsions, his eyes fixed in a squint, and that foam was flowing from his lips.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But imagine my Emile, who has been carefully guarded for eighteen years with the sole object of preserving a right judgment and a healthy heart, imagine him when the curtain goes up casting his eyes for the first time upon the world’s stage; or rather picture him behind the scenes watching the actors don their costumes, and counting the cords and pulleys which deceive with their feigned shows the eyes of the spectators.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The statement of this curious fact—intended merely to assist me in identifying the person of whom we were in search—when coupled with the additional information that Anne Catherick had escaped from a mad-house, started the first immense conception in my mind, which subsequently led to such amazing results.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The crowd swarmed ashore and soon the forest distances and craggy heights echoed far and near with shoutings and laughter.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

I take it that conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

But the policy of Theodosius derived more solid benefit from the death, than he could have expected from the most faithful services, of his ally.
— 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

It was impossible for Toby to feel any delight at the idea of riding in public, and he would have been willing to have taken one of Mr. Lord's most severe whippings if he could have escaped from it; but he and Ella had become such firm friends, and he had conceived such a boyish admiration for her, that he felt as if he were willing to bear almost anything for the sake of giving her pleasure.
— from Toby Tyler; Or, Ten Weeks with a Circus by James Otis

Forsyth, E.C. Rowse, Bertie Pierson, Walter Sanger, Kenneth Hartley, Hattie Coons, Margaret B. Dodge, Alice Downing, Anna A. Hays, Emma A. Gill, "Georgie," D.C. Robertson, Willie T. Sheffield, Samuel Herbert Fisher, George D. Mitchell, Carrie Welles, G.L., Emma Elliott, K.C.R., A.H., John Hancock, Jr., Harry Hartshorn, Carrie Doane, Carrie Heller, Eddie F. Worcester, H.S., Fred B. Appleget, "Three of Them" (?), C. Kittinger, "Bessie and her Cousin," and P. Hill, whose criticism we find just.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various

Akim's love for her and confidence in her only increased as he grew older; her girl friends, who had been married not to peasants, were suffering cruel hardships, either from poverty or from having fallen into bad hands....
— from Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Among the Dutch gentry he had chosen his early friends.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

For 16 miles we wind through the cañon of the Grand River, and view with feelings of admiration and awe those towering walls of rock of such peculiar construction and varied colors that we wonder what remarkable process of Nature could have ever formed them thus.
— from Nine Thousand Miles on a Pullman Train An Account of a Tour of Railroad Conductors from Philadelphia to the Pacific Coast and Return by Milton M. Shaw

Once Lady O'Gara thought she caught his eyes fixed with a gloomy intentness on the group of young people at the other end of the table.
— from Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan

The head clerk was very cordial; he even found time to come out and shake hands.
— from Money Magic: A Novel by Hamlin Garland

There, placing himself before an unshuttered pane, he stood some minutes without moving, his hands resting on the head of his cane, his eyes fixed on Mary.
— from The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

The sight of the latter seemed to trouble him, and he strove feebly to clear his eyes from the spray of the water and the mist of approaching death.
— from My Friend Pasquale, and Other Stories by James Selwin Tait

In every successive stage of their advancement, such countries have equally felt the evils occasioned by a scanty and precarious subsistence.
— from A Voyage to the Moon With Some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and Other Lunarians by George Tucker