Back at the hotel he felt better, but as he walked into the barber-shop, intending to get a head massage, the smell of the powders and tonics brought back Axia's sidelong, suggestive smile, and he left hurriedly.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Between the girl and her mother was a feeling of pure hatred.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

She only used to look towards the face of the God as he moved along, and to turn her own features towards him.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

So spake the Sovran voice, and Clouds began To darken all the Hill, and smoak to rowl In duskie wreathes, reluctant flames, the signe Of wrauth awak’t: nor with less dread the loud Ethereal Trumpet from on high gan blow: At which command the Powers Militant, That stood for Heav’n, in mighty Quadrate joyn’d Of Union irresistible, mov’d on In silence thir bright Legions, to the sound Of instrumental Harmonie that breath’d Heroic Ardor to advent’rous deeds Under thir God-like Leaders, in the Cause Of God and his Messiah .
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

And then I saw, coming very slowly towards me through the gloom, a hazy mass of light that resolved itself as it drew nearer into multitudes of fishes, struggling and darting round something that drifted.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Chief Inspector Heat, bending forward over the table in a gingerly and horrified manner, let him run on.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

But a revelation from Heaven and the working of God prevented him from achieving either of these enterprises; for when he had made choice of most courageous companions, fit to preach the Word, inasmuch as they were renowned for their good deeds and their learning, and when all things necessary were provided for the voyage, there came to him on a certain day early in the morning one of the brethren, who had been a disciple of the priest, Boisil, 816 beloved of God, and had ministered to him in Britain, when the said Boisil was provost of the [pg 318] monastery of Mailros, 817 under the Abbot Eata, as has been said above.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Since his time algebra has been applied so widely in geometry and higher mathematics that we need only mention the names of Fermat, Wallis, Newton, Leibnitz, De Moivre, MacLaurin, Taylor, Euler, D'Alembert, Lagrange, Laplace, Fourier, Poisson, Gauss, Horner, De Morgan, Sylvester, Cayley.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

I had enjoyed myself greatly, and had met with no unpleasantness except that I had been now and then short of money.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"It was not," answered Ragnar, "for it seemed to me that the men looked only to find your Welsh thane Griffin and his men.
— from Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

Last week the Senate lost a good and honest man, Lee Metcalf of Montana.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter

Signor Console, I ask your pardon for the trouble I have given,” and he made the consul another low bow.
— from A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells

Whatever your creed, class, or country, one might almost add your character, you were a welcome guest at his matutinal meal, provided you were celebrated.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

But here some attendants grappled and held me, my hat was lifted from my brows, and the circlet of blossoms was carefully entwined all round my hat.
— from In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

She accepted her father's caresses gratefully, and her mother's with placid indifference.
— from Barren Honour: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

There is a vast difference between me—my condition, I mean—and the gal and her mother.”
— from The Girls of Central High on the Stage; Or, The Play That Took The Prize by Gertrude W. Morrison

This was the way Bob talked to himself while he was sailing from New Orleans to Galveston, and he meant every word of it.
— from The Mail Carrier by Harry Castlemon

"God and humanity made it," he said of the philosophy he discovered, "and it made me."
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

I shall be glad to spend most of the winter in study, and I think of giving about half my time to my profession and its kindred branches of physics and mathematics, and of the remaining portion a moiety to politics and the political history of our country (which will necessitate the careful reading and study of the Federalist and Madison papers, and other documents illustrative of the peculiar glories of our institutions), and the remainder to general reading.” TO HANNAH.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens