It has gone far enough—too far—And she should wear a blue cloak—sea-blue—the color of her eyes—" "And of yours."
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

We cannot as reasonable men do better than base our policy on the evidence we have and adapt it to the five or ten years over which we may suppose ourselves to have some measure of prevision; and we are not at fault if we leave on one side the extreme chances of human existence and of revolutionary changes in the order of Nature or of man's relations to her.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Better off than the “church-going mother of six children,” and with a husband sick to death, who to support the family made shirts, averaging an income of one dollar and twenty cents a week, while her oldest girl, aged thirteen, was “employed down-town cutting out Hamburg edgings at one dollar and a half a week—two and a half cents per hour for ten hours of steady labor—making the total income of the family two dollars and seventy cents per week.”
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

And that you were the cause of his exile and of his going wandering seven years about the world cannot be denied.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Johnson received him with much courteousness, and talked a great deal to him, as to a school-boy, of the course of his education, and other particulars.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Our vows being thus reciprocally breathed, a confidence of hope ensued, and our mutual fondness becoming as intimate as innocence would allow, I grew insensible of the progress of time, and it was morning before I could tear myself from this darling of my soul!
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He said he would die in any case; but there was some chance of his escaping, and of thus becoming independent for life.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The dog and the pig dispute with one another the priority of rank, the dog basing his claims on his earlier appearance on the earth, for he followed immediately the igwana; the pig, asserting himself in virtue of not eating unclean things.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

He heard the news of his destination, in perfect silence; and, having had his luggage put into his hand—which was not very difficult to carry, inasmuch as it was all comprised within the limits of a brown paper parcel, about half a foot square by three inches deep—he pulled his cap over his eyes; and once more attaching himself to Mr. Bumble's coat cuff, was led away by that dignitary to a new scene of suffering.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

He was the younger son of an ancient family of Gascony; and, having lost his parents at an early period of his life, the care of his education and of his small portion had devolved to his brother, the Count de Duvarney, his senior by nearly twenty years.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

But who had bidden her make a friend of the man, take him into the inner circle, treat him as one who belonged to the group of her intimates, to the company of her equals and of those with whom she had grown up?
— from Quisanté by Anthony Hope

He had stood by the brave man who, all alone and undaunted, had known how to defend his heritage and the cause of his Emperor and of France.
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

One day, a sly old fox, passing underneath, began leering at the dove from the corner of his eye, as old men ogle pretty girls at windows.
— from The Pobratim: A Slav Novel by P. Jones

We do not ask for gold or silver, which it is long since we have touched or seen, and which are as much denied to us as if we had been convicted of having encountered all our toils and perils in the service of the enemies of the republic."
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

And therefore the marvelously gifted statesman had always a weary gloom in the deep caverns of his eyes, as of a child that has outgrown its playthings or a man of mighty faculties and little aims, whose life, with all its high performances, was vague and empty, because no high purpose had endowed it with reality.
— from Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by William H. (William Harris) Elson

The Count was soon convinced of his Error, and obliged to find Bail to the Action; and there being none in the Room but the Bailiff and himself when the Writ was executed, the Rascal absolutely denied the Present of Eight Guineas , and got three more for his Civility , in not carrying him out of the House.
— from The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money by Thomson, John, active 1732

The corners of her eyes and of her beautiful mouth were lifted; as if by—he could find no other word for the thing he meant but wings.
— from The Flaw in the Crystal by May Sinclair

She seems to exhale the breath of violets, suggested perhaps by the colour of her eyes, as one follows her tranquil movements, like Shelley's hyacinth bells-- 'Which rang with a music so soft and intense That it passed for an odor within the sense.'
— from Inchbracken: The Story of a Fama Clamosa by Robert Cleland