His face, of which his turned-up nose was the only prominent feature, was marked with small-pox and pale as death, his hair was gray and shaggy, his eyes small, but they glanced perpetually about on all sides.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The curate removed his hat and passed his handkerchief over his damp forehead, his breath coming and going almost sobbingly, his eyes staring straight before him into the yellowness of the haze.
— from The Dawn of a To-morrow by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Among these things I noticed on the table a pack of cards and a set of dice, of which she had been very fond, and a chair like the one in which the eunuchs had carried the crippled old Princess about the court, and I said to the young Princess who accompanied me: "You do not think your grandmother will require these things in the spirit world, do you?" "Perhaps not," she replied, "but she enjoyed her cards and dice, and the chair was such a necessity, that, whether she needs them or not, it is a comfort to us to get and send her everything she liked while she lived, and it helps us bear our sorrows.
— from Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People by Isaac Taylor Headland

He lay groaning and snoring, his eyes shut, and his nose still bleeding a little.
— from Clutterbuck's Treasure by Frederick Whishaw

Very much puzzled and confused, and perhaps a little frightened at these curious deceptions, he laid himself down on the grass and shut his eyes so as to go to sleep; but no sooner had he shut his eyes than he heard a soft, soft little voice calling, "Martin!
— from A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

She’s quite old looking, and very gray, and she hardly ever smiles.
— from The Polly Page Ranch Club by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

Mr. George Adam Smith has evidently such a mastery of the scholarship of his subject that it would be a sheer impertinence for most scholars, even though tolerable Hebraists, to criticise his translations; and certainly it is not the intention of the present reviewer to attempt anything of the kind, to do which he is absolutely incompetent.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

Very much puzzled and confused, and perhaps a little frightened at these curious deceptions, he laid himself down on the grass and shut his eyes so as to go to sleep; but no sooner had he shut his eyes than he heard a soft, soft little voice calling, "Martin! Martin!"
— from A Little Boy Lost by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Then Uvrei had led him ceremoniously to a reflecting glass and shown him Emrys Shortmire—a boy far more handsome than the boy Jan Shortmire had been, though, at the same time, his twin.
— from Never Come Midnight by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

Drummer, somber-faced, returned Narval's gaze and saw his eyes shrink into lumpy flesh.
— from The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven