Now, I'm not usually prone to try my hand at prophecy; but I am tempted to say, even on our short acquaintance, that I am tolerably sure that, while we shall be willing enough to spare most of the new-comers to the Klondyke, we shall grudge to the gold-fields the men who built this camp and warmed this cabin." (His eye rested reflectively on Mac.)
— from The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins

In the excitement of the great disaster no one had inquired for Deborah, except Glaucon, who received from the cautious Huldah evasive replies regarding her illness.
— from Deborah: A tale of the times of Judas Maccabaeus by James M. (James Meeker) Ludlow

Margaret lingered behind, cast her eye rapidly round the furniture, and selected the Vulgate and the psaltery.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

The clouds were at the right altitude for this, and there were gaps in them over which we could hover, examining roads, railroads, villages, cantonments.
— from High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France by James Norman Hall

"Good-afternoon, gents," Foley said carelessly, his eyes running rapidly from face to face.
— from The Walking Delegate by Leroy Scott

Careless of inscriptions, indifferent to carving, his eyes ran rapidly along the foot of the northern wall until they came to a sarcophagus of green marble.
— from The Prince of India; Or, Why Constantinople Fell — Volume 01 by Lew Wallace

He is not only one of the highest, he is also one of the best and solidest intelligences that ever existed; and this great conciliator has easily reconciled religion and philosophy, St. Augustine and Descartes, tradition and reason."
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

Suddenly she looked up, cast her eyes rapidly round the court, and fixing them full on Prescott, who was attentively watching her, she exclaimed: ‘I am not guilty.’
— from The Queen Against Owen by Allen Upward

[ 41 ] The people's shouts were long and loud, My mother, shuddering, closed her ears; "Rejoice! rejoice!"
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson