4. At times, with a strong effort, he would glance at the open door which still seemed to repel his eyes.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

'Where?' 'Yonder! replied the man, glaring at the opposite wall.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The most accessible glaciers are those of Aletsch, Chamonix, and Zermatt.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Five of them sat in a circle on the ground, and the other five went into the drying-shed.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Such a difference of prices, which, it seems, is not always sufficient to transport a man from one parish to another, would necessarily occasion so great a transportation of the most bulky commodities, not only from one parish to another, but from one end of the kingdom, almost from one end of the world to the other, as would soon reduce them more nearly to a level.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I know, on good authority, that one of the chief people at Oxford said, Stelling might get the highest honors if he chose.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

M. Renan, that mountebank in psychologicus , has contributed the two most unseemly notions to this business of explaining the type of Jesus: the notion of the genius and that of the hero (“ héros ”).
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Now, I made for Madame Marguerite of Flanders, that famous epithalamium, as you know, and the city will not pay me, under the pretext that it was not excellent; as though one could give a tragedy of Sophocles for four crowns!
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

On the 19th of December I was at Bridgeport, and gave all the orders necessary for the distribution of the four divisions of the Fifteenth Corps along the railroad from Stevenson to Decatur, and the part of the Sixteenth Corps; commanded by General Dodge, along the railroad from Decatur to Nashville, to make the needed repairs, and to be in readiness for the campaign of the succeeding year; and on the 21st I went up to Nashville, to confer with General Grant and conclude the arrangements for the winter.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

His voice was as gentle as that of a bridegroom before marriage.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Her Own Way and The Stubbornness of Geraldine are two original American plays, ingenious and novel in their employment of pictorial devices.
— from Her Own Way A Play in Four Acts by Clyde Fitch

In such a Case it would be needless to go about to offer Arguments sufficient to disengage their Inclinations, Time only must discover to them their Error, when it makes them sensible they have, to no Purpose, persisted in the Pursuit of frivolous Niceties; for in reality, the Benefit of Mankind in general is deduced from Practical Truths.
— from A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts by William Beckett

Jackson glanced at him and Harry, saluting, said: “I have given all the orders, sir, to those for whom they were intended.”
— from The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

They gathered together in groups, and talked of how they were to attack this formidable city, whose colossal walls bid defiance to their puny weapons.
— from The Harlequin Opal: A Romance. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Fergus Hume

In fact, public generosity, and the opulence of the communities which sheltered them, gave them an almost supreme power, and from obscurity they rose to be all-powerful factors in the life of the times.
— from Romantic Ireland; volume 1/2 by Blanche McManus

Therefore it is that on the Mithriac Monuments, the Scorpion bites the testicles of the Equinoctial Bull, on which sits Mithras, the Sun of Spring and God of Generation; and that, on the same monuments, we see two trees, one covered with young leaves, and at its foot a little bull and a torch burning; and the other loaded with fruit, and at its foot a Scorpion, and a torch reversed and extinguished.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike