"Where is the Emerald City?" he enquired; "and who is Oz?" "Why, don't you know?"
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The legions of the eastern frontier embraced his cause; the opulent but unarmed provinces, from the frontiers of Æthiopia to the Hadriatic, cheerfully submitted to his power; and the kings beyond the Tigris and the Euphrates congratulated his election, and offered him their homage and services.
— 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

“Afterwards,” he said with an effort, closing his eyes again and turning to the wall.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Why does she not get tired of the same thing—of eternally closing her eyes, and of hiding her face?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground—what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

He lay down again, even closed his eyes, and lay for twenty minutes without uttering a word, so that I thought he was asleep or unconscious.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then perceiving for the first time the garb of the traveller he had to entertain, Caderousse hastily exclaimed: “A thousand pardons!
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Then, as one who lives alone in the country, far from any neighbor, hides a brand as fire-seed in the ashes to save himself from having to get a light elsewhere, even so did Ulysses cover himself up with leaves; and Minerva shed a sweet sleep upon his eyes, closed his eyelids, and made him lose all memories of his sorrows.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

He saw Miss Elphinstone covering her eyes, and a little child, with all a child’s want of sympathetic imagination, staring with dilated eyes at a dusty something that lay black and still, ground and crushed under the rolling wheels.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Otfrid, 'a monk at Weissenburg in Elsass', composed his Evangelienbuch about 870 a.d.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nobody ever comes here, except a few fishermen in the fall and spring.
— from The Rival Campers; Or, The Adventures of Henry Burns by Ruel Perley Smith

Ern caught her eye and spat, and cut her dead, Bessie laughed hardly, in the gipsy way.
— from The Widow in the Bye Street by John Masefield

All the objects in there—the books, portrait on the wall—seemed shadowy, unsubstantial, the dumb accomplices of an amazing dream-plot ending in an illusory effect of awakening and the impossibility of ever closing his eyes again.
— from Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

On these topics, different persons and different nations, equally honest, equally enlightened, and equally competent, have entertained, and still entertain, the most different opinions, which they advocate with the greatest confidence, and support by arguments, perfectly satisfactory to themselves, but contemptuously rejected by their opponents.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Estra closed his eyes again for a second, and when he opened them again, his manner was astonishingly alert, and his speech swift and to the point.
— from The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint

[230] Had he obtained money enough, completed his education, and obtained ordination in due course, it would have completed the story in a regular way.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

Rab looked perplexed and dangerous; for ever cocking his ear and dropping it as fast.
— from Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers by John Brown

Unfortunately its patristic terminology has led the unenlightened to conclude that it is exclusive and sectarian; consequently, many earnest Christians have evinced an inclination to reject it, and efforts have been made to have it expunged from the Liturgy of the Church of England.
— from The Metaphysic of Christianity and Buddhism: A Symphony by D. M. (Dawsonne Melanchthon) Strong

Thereupon they discovered Jasmin, who had followed his master, after tightening the waistband of his breeches as much as possible, covering his head with a long-vizored cap, which entirely concealed his eyes and nose, and arming himself with a hunting crop.
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock