Charge has especial reference to services, expense to minor outlays; as, the charges of a lawyer or physician; traveling expenses ; household expenses .
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

And bringing the fragrant fruit to her lips, she sank her white, glistening teeth into the golden pulp, closing her eyes rapturously, to sense the full warm sweetness of the juice.
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

There Luliya—who seems to be the Mullins of Menander, though certainly not the Elulaeus of Ptolemy’s Canon, had evidently raised the standard of revolt, probably during the early years of Sennacherib, when domestic troubles seem to have occupied his attention.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

Aunt Thankful sat writing at her desk, now and then casting her eyes round the school-room, to see that everything was in order.
— from Happy Days for Boys and Girls by Various

On her arrival at Hernshaw Castle she cast her eyes round to see what there was to fall in love with; and observed the gamekeeper, Tom Leicester.
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade

Everybody who has taken any interest in the subject, knows that Dr. Crookes has exhausted radiometers to such a degree that they could not be influenced by the radiation of a candle placed a few inches from the bulb.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

She saw her family perishing around her for want,—she felt it consuming her own vitals,—and as she cast her eye round the squalid room, the gold glittered brighter and brighter in her eye.
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 4 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin

Elder King would certainly have displayed more worldly sagacity, to say nothing of Christian propriety, to have admitted me into his house as usual, where we could, all together, have reasoned the matter; and if prejudices could not have been conciliated, the Elder, at all events, by his previous acquaintance with my character, had every reason to suppose that I should have conducted myself as became a gentleman and a Christian.
— from The American Prejudice Against Color An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily the Nation Got into an Uproar. by Allen, William G., active 1849-1853

Not a trace remained of that fire and those intonations, which were the result of unconscious creation; her eyes resumed their serene, happy indifference, her face its pleased, childlike expression.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

Fortunately, however, the new spirit of progress had made itself felt more effectively in some other portions of Italy, and so Galileo found a refuge and a following in Padua, and afterwards in Florence; and while, as we have seen, he was obliged to curb his enthusiasm regarding the subject that was perhaps nearest his heart—the promulgation of the Copernican theory—yet he was permitted in the main to carry on his experimental observations unrestrained.
— from A History of Science — Volume 2 by Edward Huntington Williams