The innkeeper's wife dropped her eyelids under Lady Audley's angry glances, and hesitated confusedly before she answered this question.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

What, then, must in the nature of things be the more noticeable effects upon London and the population of London; upon its land values; upon its municipal debt, and its municipal assets; upon London as a labour market; upon the homes of its people; upon its open spaces, and upon the great undertakings which our socialistic and municipal reformers are at the present moment so anxious to secure?
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

When I am behind him and C. in front of him, he whirls one eye rearwards and the other forwards—which gives him a most Congressional expression (one eye on the constituency and one on the swag); and then if something happens above and below him he shoots out one eye upward like a telescope and the other downward—and this changes his expression, but does not improve it.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Now although gymnastics and common meals do good, they are also a cause of evil in civil troubles, and they appear to encourage unnatural love, as has been shown at Miletus, in Boeotia, and at Thurii.
— from Laws by Plato

Their houses are mortgaged over and over again, they have no other property—it’s all been drunk and eaten up long ago.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There was one comfort, however,—all this was entailed upon little Arthur, and could not under any circumstances, strictly speaking, be his mother’s.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Though in representing the labour which is employed upon land as the only productive labour, the notions which it inculcates are, perhaps, too narrow and confined; yet in representing the wealth of nations as consisting, not in the unconsumable riches of money,
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

He appeared extremely uneasy, looking anxiously around him, fluttering his wings, and making a loud cooing noise, but could not be persuaded to trust himself from off the car.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

By this means you may define ex ungue leonem , as the diverb is, by his thumb alone the bigness of Hercules, or the true dimensions of the great [3361] Colossus, Solomon's temple, and Domitian's amphitheatre out of a little part.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"I entered upon life a perfect gentleman," says the American as he sits in Hampton Court.
— from Henry James by Rebecca West

We feel that in realising this swoon of sensuous yet despairing pain, sharp as tears, bitter as brine, and sinuous as the serpent, and in falling back like a fountain to the ground from the heaven of eternally unsatisfied longing and delight, we penetrate to the central mystery of life, and see the white heart of the great rose of being pulsating with one melodious throb of self-satiating and non-virile bliss!’
— from The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan

Gray turned his small cunning eyes upon Learmont as he replied,— “There is an old fable, of the Goose and the Golden Eggs.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

Before determining that, however, we must see what need there may be of one familiar to our ears until lately, although now, I understand, falling into disuse.
— from Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the Alps and in the Scotland and England Which My Father Knew by John Ruskin

The Observations which I made in this Conjuncture, and the repeated Advices which I received at that Time from the good old Man above-mentioned, have produced the following Essay upon Love and Marriage.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

it was the people's wisdom to obey; and, even under Louis, a Seigneur was not hung every day of the week!
— from The King's Scapegoat by Hamilton Drummond

It has an extraordinary effect upon low and uncultivated minds; as was exemplified in late times, when war prices and abundance of money placed it within the reach of the English commonalty.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

It is not pretended, but that his experiments upon living animals may have in some few cases led him to erroneous conclusions, but how numerous were the instances in which he obtained from them the most satisfactory and important information.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

NAÏVETÉ D'UN VILLAGEOIS «Monsieur, disait à son maître un domestique nouvellement arrivé de son village, ma mère m'a recommandé de lui envoyer une lettre aussitôt que j'aurais été quelques jours chez vous.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

"When I began to hope in a blind dumb way that nothing more could happen to wring my heart, because I had my daughter safe, owned her entire undivided love, and we were all in all to each other; just when I dared to pray that my sky might be blue for a little while, because my baby's eyes mirrored it, even then the last, the dearest is stolen away, and by my best friend too!
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans