Then you should have seen how the lass twittered with laughter, and how she looked at Little John out of the corners of her eyes, a dimple coming in either cheek; for the fellow had always a taking way with the womenfolk.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The chief of his enemies and detractors was Marcus Manlius, he who had been the first man to fling the Gauls down the cliff in the night attack on the Capitol, and who in remembrance of this was surnamed Capitolinus.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

But if the author permits an over degree of attention to be drawn to his work ere it has appeared, he places himself in the embarrassing condition of having excited a degree of expectation which, if he proves unable to satisfy, is an error fatal to his literary reputation.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The photographer cannot compose a formula for the composition of his emulsions and developers from assured data like those that enable the chemist to weigh out with accuracy the constituents that go to produce a required compound.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

An apoplectic sort of breathlessness came over him, expressing a degree of interest which she could not understand.
— from The Mormon Prophet by L. (Lily) Dougall

Constance opened her eyes and declared that Uncle Frank and Aunt Mary never could do such things.
— from That Stick by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Jill looked out of the corner of her eye at Derek.
— from Jill the Reckless by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

He upbraided Michael with the cruelties of his executions, and declared his resolution of calling him to an account for these personally at Gondar; he warned him in time, to repass the Tacazzé, and retire while it was in his power to his government of Tigrè, where nobody would molest him, and leave the king at liberty to act for himself.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

His complexion was a clear olive; his eyes a dark blue; his head small and well shaped; his figure scarcely above the middle size, but slender and elegant.
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I have been thinking, Allegra," putting his arm through hers, and pacing up and down the terrace, with the bright expanse of sea in front of them, and at their back the great curtain of hills encircling and defending them from the wintry world—"I have been thinking that Venice would be a charming place for you and me to spend next summer in—if—if—you meant six months instead of twelve for my probation—as I really think you must have done.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Hence comes the turning inwards and condensation of his energies and desires, till they do indeed form a "lump"; a hard, tight core about which all the currents of his existence swirl.
— from Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People by Evelyn Underhill

In Stuttgart, where He made a brief but never-to-be-forgotten stay, and to which He traveled in spite of ill-health in order to establish personal contact with the members of the community of His enthusiastic and dearly beloved German friends, He, apart from attending the gatherings of His devoted followers, bestowed His abundant blessings on the members of the Youth group, gathered at Esslingen, and addressed, at the invitation of Professor Christale, President of the Esperantists of Europe, a large meeting of Esperantists at their club.
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi