Her kind, gentle eyes rested a long time upon her: then she looked toward her husband as if beseeching him to cherish this child with special tenderness in his heart; and when he returned the glance with another, in which all the wealth of his great and loyal love shone through his tears, her fever-flushed features brightened.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 05 by Georg Ebers

These observations it was easy for him to make, for the stranger never looked behind , but with chin dropped upon his breast, his glaring eyes rolling a little to the right and left in their sunken sockets, continued to urge his way along the populous thoroughfare.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

In 1349 Duke John III granted a charter that not only confirmed all of its ancient privileges, but gave exceptional rights and liberties to foreigners
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

Napoleon's face beamed with good humour, he conversed with animation to the general, responding with gracious empressement, right and left, to the salutes he received, whilst the brilliant equipage drove slowly three times round the lake.
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

He was a lineal descendant of John Knox, the great English reformer, and, like that bold ancestor, he never shrunk from the post of danger, if called to it by duty.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

They was givin' 'em right and left to other fellows, and the lieutenant said he guessed he could manage it.
— from The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars by Harold Frederic