My Lady reclines in her chair composedly, though with a trifle less of graceful ease than usual perhaps, and never falters in her steady gaze.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I might add that all these surrenders are the subject of indictments before the French Courts of high treason against Frenchmen who surrendered their holdings to the Germans, even though undeniable pressure was brought to bear upon them.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

Patres conscripti , crown his brow, Who brought us from the golden East This unimagined peerless beast!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 3, 1917 by Various

First Paul applies the general exhortation to unity, Phil. 2:1-11, to the case of Euodia and Syntyche, and adds certain other brief exhortations.
— from The Literature and History of New Testament Times by J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen

I sh’d think you might give ’em to us, Polly,” he added wheedlingly.
— from The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House by Margaret Sidney

Brand's gloomy eyes turned upon Philip suspiciously.
— from A Knight on Wheels by Ian Hay

I’m not gentleman enough to understand parlarver.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

But it was bed time and in the delicious process of undressing and donning gowns or pajamas the girls enjoyed the usual pranks that are ever unusual, and seem different every time they are indulged in.
— from The Girl Scouts at Bellaire; Or, Maid Mary's Awakening by Lilian Garis

Sautee noted the slim, tapered right hand of the man across the table from him, the clear, gray eyes, the unmistakable poise of a man who is absolutely and utterly confident 125 and sure of himself.
— from The Coyote A Western Story by James Roberts

He has taught himself, by a great effort, to use parliamentary expressions, and nobody'll ever get him to do more.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø

He was dressed in one of the strait coats of the day, stiff with gold embroidery, the upper part of the sleeve puffed out with crimson silk, and held down with straps of cloth of gold.
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James