The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing more but meditation.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Ultimately, the guests having departed, he entered with the lady alone into her chamber, where she, more heated with wine than restrained by modesty, without any reserve of shamefastness, undid herself in his presence, as he had been one of her women, and betook herself to bed.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“I wish,” Scrooge muttered, putting his hand in his pocket, and looking about him, after drying his eyes with his cuff: “but it’s too late now.”
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

One unusual detail: his eyes were spaced a little far from each other and could instantly take in nearly a quarter of the horizon.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

With what splendor he filled that dismal dwelling! Her eyes were glazing, and her heart breaking; but so it would have been, even had the sun not shone that morning on Anna Dorothea.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Madame Cheron and her party supped with Madame Clairval in the saloon, and Emily, with difficulty, disguised her emotion, when she saw Valancourt placed at the same table with herself.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“I will be silent, then,” said Milady, casting down her eyes with all the sweetness she could give to her voice, with all the resignation she could impress upon her manner.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

His superstition was subdued by fear: on the third day, he entered with joy the fortifications of Ctesiphon; yet he still doubted of his safety till he had opposed the River Tigris to the pursuit of the Romans.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And Duncan,” she added, looking round upon the youth with a smile of ineffable innocence, “even our own brave and noble Duncan has escaped without a hurt.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

No faith, however absurd or degrading, has ever wanted these foundations, testimony, and the books.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Suddenly, however, Miss M. opened the door; her eyes were red.
— from A Turkish Woman's European Impressions by hanoum Zeyneb

"It is my ward, Gleissert's unfortunate daughter," Hilsborn explained with some reserve.
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

The whole of the operations, with the exception of the storming of the stockade, which took place late in the day after the French and Dutch had embarked, were under the personal superintendence of the English and French admirals.
— from Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs by J. M. W. (Jacob Mortimer Wier) Silver

Every day his energies were divided between the sovereigns who required his counsel and aid, and the converts, chiefs, and others who listened to his instructions.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

When I called on him yesterday, he had already spoken to Monsieur de Mirabeau, who acknowledged he had been in an error in what he had advanced in the Assembly of the Nation, as to the proposition supposed to have been made by me to your Excellency, and undertook to declare his error, when the subject should be resumed by the Assembly, to whom my letter to the Marquis de la Fayette will be also read.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson

He was a mighty king--the mightiest of all in the Enchanted Island, he believed--and ways to destroy his enemies were numerous.
— from The Enchanted Island of Yew Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

'There's no standin' this any longer, Puddock,' said O'Flaherty, incensed indescribably by the odious names which his reverence was hypothetically accumulating; 'if you want to see the fightin', Father Roach——.' 'Apage, Sathanas!' murmured his reverence, pettishly, raising his plump, blue chin, and dropping his eyelids with a shake of the head, and waving the back of his fat, red hand gently towards the speaker.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu