She looked at me, her eyes fairly blazing with things she could not say.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Mrs. Grose looked straight out of the window, but I felt that, hypothetically, I had a right to know what young persons engaged for Bly were expected to do.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Edward from Belgia, With hasty Germans and blunt Hollanders, Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow seas
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

One of them was a gentleman who had impressed every one extremely, a man seven feet high, with whiskers half a yard long, who had been standing behind Semyon Ivanovitch's back during the fire, and had given him encouragement from behind, when our hero had felt something like ecstasy and had stamped as though intending thereby to applaud the gallant work of the firemen, from which he had an excellent view from his elevated position.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(For is it likely that Zeus would give such base and cowardly advice, especially to one who was not even fighting, but was standing there very much at his ease?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

And, directly contrary to my first examples, the bravest of all men, and who was reputed so gracious to all those he overcame, Alexander, having, after many great difficulties, forced the city of Gaza, and, entering, found Betis, who commanded there, and of whose valour in the time of this siege he had most marvellous manifest proof, alone, forsaken by all his soldiers, his armour hacked and hewed to pieces, covered all over with blood and wounds, and yet still fighting in the crowd of a number of Macedonians, who were laying on him on all sides, he said to him, nettled at so dear-bought a victory (for, in addition to the other damage, he had two wounds newly received in his own person), “Thou shalt not die, Betis, as thou dost intend; be sure thou shall suffer all the torments that can be inflicted on a captive.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

As soon as he began to acquire the words pretty freely, Nicholas showed him how he must come in with both hands spread out upon his stomach, and how he must occasionally rub it, in compliance with the established form by which people on the stage always denote that they want something to eat.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I remember once, glancing up from the manuscript I was studying by the light of some tallow dips, and seeing Mr. Wilde squatting motionless on his high chair, his eyes fairly blazing with excitement, while the cat, which had risen from her place before the stove, came creeping across the floor right at him.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

And if we feel us not then eased forthwith, be we sure that He useth the condition of a wise mother.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

And in a moment the tears had gushed in torrents from his eyes, and he had fallen forward at the Prince’s feet—fallen forward just as he was, in his smoked-grey-shot-with-flame-colour frockcoat, his velvet waistcoat, his satin tie, and his exquisitely fitting breeches, while from his neatly brushed pate, as again and again he struck his hand against his forehead, there came an odorous whiff of best-quality eau-de-Cologne.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

It was not till 1803 that, through the exertions of Colonel Talbot, emigration from Britain was commenced on any large scale.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2 by George Warburton

I had to profit by experience, for before we reached the creek she had whirled round three times, in spite of all my efforts to prevent it.
— from Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants by Oliver Optic

She turned to the two ladies, who, with their eyes frankly below, were counselling together.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

If dangers such as these be eliminated from boys' work in connection with the Sunday school, and if the spirit of sincerity and earnestness pervades the work of the leaders, there should be little difficulty in raising the boy through the physical, social and mental to the larger spiritual expression for which the church stands.
— from The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys by John L. Alexander

Fortification against a foreign enemy there was none, only two or three peeces of ordenance mounted, and against a domestic noe other but a pale inclosinge the Towne to the quantitye of foure acres, within which those buildings that weare erected, coulde not in any man's judgement, neither did stande above five yeares and that not without continuall reparations; true it is that there was a Bricke Church intended to be built, but not soe much as the foundation therof ever finished, but we contentinge our selves with a church of wood answerable to those houses.
— from Colonial Records of Virginia by Various

Its lucid leaves unfolds: for him the hand Of autumn tinges every fertile branch With blooming gold, and blushes like the morn.
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

[44] (71) 499-9000 FAX: [44] (71) 409-1637 consulate(s) general: Belfast and Edinburgh Flag: blue with the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England) edged in white superimposed on the diagonal red cross of Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland) which is superimposed on the diagonal white cross of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland); known as the Union Flag or Union Jack; the design and colors (especially the Blue Ensign) have been the basis for a number of other flags including dependencies, Commonwealth countries, and others @United Kingdom, Economy Overview: The UK is one of the world's great trading powers and financial centers, and its economy ranks among the four largest in Western Europe.
— from The 1994 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

This has made it the easier for bachelors with good store of knowledge, like Leofric Wyvill, to gain pupils, and obtain the Chancellor's licence to lecture on many books.
— from A Clerk of Oxford, and His Adventures in the Barons' War by Evelyn Everett-Green