They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

When he became drowsy and closed his eyes, he raised a hand and with it groped about in the darkness.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

For as he stood amid our gaze confounded, disarmed, and cast his eyes around the Phrygian columns, "Alas!"
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

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

D. at Chapel House, Ealing, 6th March, 1855.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

In a couple of days Durham and Company had electric fans up to cool off the rooms for them, and even couches for them to rest on; and meantime they could go out and find a shady corner and take a “snooze,” and as there was no place for any one in particular, and no system, it might be hours before their boss discovered them.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

“Let go of me—let go, quick—” He lay down and closed his eyes.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

We therefore every way strove to show the monarch our gratitude for his great kindness; we took every possible means to amuse him; no one was allowed for one moment to treat him with disrespect; and Cortes himself even never sat down in his presence unless he desired him to do so.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

He stopped in front of the Preobrazhénsk regiment, sighed deeply, and closed his eyes.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He first glanced aside at his crown-prince and then at the Prince of Gothland; he drew a comparison; his eye continued to rest appreciatively, in soldierly approval, on the smart naval lieutenant, broad and strong, sitting with his hands on his thighs, bending forward a little, looking back at the white capital as it receded before his eyes through the slanting rainbeams....
— from Majesty: A Novel by Louis Couperus

She knelt down and closed her eyes, but prayer did not come.
— from Peasant Tales of Russia by Vasilii Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko

JACKMAN drops a curtsey; her eyes stab HORNBLOWERS.] JACKMAN.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

dear me, time soon passes ‘in the country;’ we shall be three hours going, the roads are very bad, then comes breakfast, and then walking round the garden, and then dinner and coming home early.”
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Doña Angela contracted her eyebrows, a movement in her which denoted grave annoyance and great mental preoccupation, and was silent again.
— from The Gold-Seekers: A Tale of California by Gustave Aimard

It is a ghastly obsession to think of all the things that one has loved best—quiet work, the sunset on familiar fields, well-known rooms, dear books, happy talk, fireside intercourse—and one's own place vacant, one's possessions dispersed among careless hands, eye and ear and voice sealed and dumb.
— from The Upton Letters by Arthur Christopher Benson

Mr. Jane opened the bills with deliberation, and cast his eyes over the headings.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Well, let us draw a curtain, heavier even than the smoke which, so lately poured from it.
— from Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

Tell Belle and [Pg 165] Fannie I died doing my duty," and, closing his eyes, was silent.
— from The Cleverdale Mystery; or, The Machine and Its Wheels: A Story of American Life by W. A. Wilkins