IF we have suffered or expect to suffer some wilful injury from a man, or if he is in any way offensive to us, we dislike him; and dislike easily rises into hatred.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

By this, no doubt, both ape-men and Indians had at different epochs reached the top, and Maple White with his companion had taken the same way.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

On seeing that he no longer had his brother as his adversary, Don Estevan regained all his boldness and impudence.
— from The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City by Gustave Aimard

A search from attic to basement was at once instituted, the men-servants were sent into the grounds with lanterns, the whole house was turned topsy-turvy, in the midst of which the nurse returned, and finding her baby was gone, went into violent hysterics, while the young baroness, with flying hair and dilated eyes, rushed about, wringing her hands, and looking, as she felt, distracted with grief.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 357, October 30, 1886 by Various

His hands were low, his head a little back, his face very calm; the eyes only had a daring, eager, resolute will lighting them; Brixworth lay before him.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

When she stood before the mirror in her own room, unbraiding her heavy hair, a dissatisfied expression robbed her features of half their loveliness, and discontent ploughed distorting lines about the scarlet lips which muttered,— “I wonder if, in one of his evil fits, my father sold and signed me away to Satan?
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Heron and des Essarts; riches and family; youth and beauty; it was an alliance altogether too suitable, and the parties involved felt it their bounden duty not to give it visible encouragement.
— from Twos and Threes by G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern

Whilst the foreground is occupied with the great scene in which Christ transmits his power to St. Peter before the assembled apostles, [288] in the distance, and above the heights, are descried edifices rising and in decay.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin