XV But once more pensive and distressed Beside his Olga doth he grieve, Nor enough strength of mind possessed To mention the foregoing eve, He mused: "I will her saviour be!
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

But King Attalus, who got no effective service out of them, and saw that they straggled during the march and encamped by themselves, and wholly declined to obey orders and despised all authority, was in great doubt as to what to do.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

They did not know where their rocket was, or whether it was going north, east, south, or west.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

He gave no external signs of depression, but his whole body tingled with rage.
— from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau

Her great natural endowments shone on paper with difficulty, through faults of every kind which escaped her notice.
— from Political Women, Vol. 1 by Menzies, Sutherland, active 1840-1883

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— from Photographs of Nebulæ and Clusters, Made with the Crossley Reflector by James Edward Keeler

More often, however, the house, or clump of houses, gives no external sign of life.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

“You see, Auntie,” she began, “we’ve never had a garden; never even seen one made.
— from Dick and Dolly by Carolyn Wells

Though the observations offered in that part are sufficient to prove my proposition, I shall add to them the following experiments: EXPERIMENT I. Some dogs and cats were immersed in a large pond till they gave no external signs of respiration, or of muscular motion; and Galvanism being immediately administered to them, according to the methods already described, they were sometimes restored to life.
— from An Account of the Late Improvements in Galvanism With a Series of Curious and Interesting Experiments Performed Before the Commissioners of the French National Institute, and Repeated Lately in the Anatomical Theatres of London by Giovanni Aldini

I knew him to be a man believing in neither good nor evil, seeking only beauty and the satisfaction of desire.
— from Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

They swept past close in front of us at full gallop, and I could see on the face of Nicholas and on that of the stalwart André the same open, gladsome, noble expression, suggestive of high chivalrous sentiment, and a desire to do noble self-sacrificing deeds for fatherland.
— from In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne