" "Never?" "Well—not if the woman, however injured, however irreproachable, has appearances in the least degree against her, has exposed herself by any unconventional action to—to offensive insinuations—" She drooped her head a little lower, and he waited again, intensely hoping for a flash of indignation, or at least a brief cry of denial.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The face she lifted to her dancers was the same which, when she saw him, always looked like a window that has caught the sunset.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

After her a little later and much more quickly Lizaveta Nikolaevna came in, and with her, hand in hand, Marya Timofyevna Lebyadkin!
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The chief of every day was spent by him at Lucas Lodge, and he sometimes returned to Longbourn only in time to make an apology for his absence before the family went to bed.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The idea struck Isabel as charming; she was curious of the thick detail of London, which had always loomed large and rich to her.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Wait till I have a little leisure, and I'll set to work, first and foremost, and flay your skin off, and then settle accounts with that good-for-nothing!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

C. Grimes: “After we were in the saddle, we rode down to the spring to have a last look at the women of Nazareth, who were, as a class, much the prettiest that we had seen in the East.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Let us make a relation of that which Alcibiades reports of Socrates, his fellow in arms: “I found him,” says he, “after the rout of our army, him and Lachez, last among those who fled, and considered him at my leisure and in security, for I was mounted on a good horse, and he on foot, as he had fought.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

He always liked looking at those great cart-horses, with their long manes, thick legs, and slow even pace, drawing along a perfect mountain with no appearance of effort, as though it were easier going with a load than without it.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Suddenly she caught a glimpse of golden hair and laughing lips, and in an open carriage with two ladies Dorian Gray drove past.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I was lumbering along in my chariot, feeling most uncomfortable under the eyes of my friends; for one foot of my machine had a loose link, and 'twas flapping absurdly.
— from The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint

Her own idea is that he loved her, but that his parents forbade him to think of her; for that was at a time before her Aunt Lydia left all her money to her.
— from A Roving Commission; Or, Through the Black Insurrection at Hayti by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Having at length lost all hope of the Phenician ships, Mindarus resolved to break off all dealing with the perfidious Tissaphernês; the more so, as Tamos, the deputy of the latter, though left ostensibly to pay and keep the fleet, performed that duty with greater irregularity than ever, and to conduct his fleet to the Hellespont into coöperation with Pharnabazus, who still continued his promises and invitations.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

Then she turned to him, and laughed lightly a welcome of sweetness, and shook the falls of her hair across the blushes of her face and her bosom; and he folded her to him, and those two would fondle together in the fashion of the betrothed ones (the blessing of Allah be on them all!), gazing on each other till their eyes swam with tears, and they were nigh swooning with the fulness of their bliss.
— from The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 by George Meredith

We Entertain A Very Distinguished Guest At Kensington Should any clue be found to the dark intrigues at the latter end of Queen Anne's time, or any historian be inclined to follow it, 'twill be discovered, I have little doubt, that not one of the great personages about the queen had a defined scheme of policy, independent of that private and selfish interest which each was bent on pursuing; St. John was for St. John, and Harley for Oxford, and Marlborough for John Churchill, always; and according [pg 422] as they could get help from St. Germains or Hanover, they sent over proffers of allegiance to the princes there, or betrayed one to the other: one cause, or one sovereign, was as good as another to them, so that they could hold the best place under him; and like Lockit and Peachem, the Newgate chiefs in the Rogues' Opera Mr. Gay wrote afterwards, had each in his hand documents and proofs of treason which would hang the other, only he did not dare to use the weapon, for fear of that one which his neighbour also carried in his pocket.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

But when the hue of softened spring Spreads over hill and lonely lea, And lowly primrose opes unseen, Her virgin bosom to the bee; When hawthorns breathe their odors far, And carols hail the year's return, And daisy spreads her silver star Unheeded, by the mountain burn, Then will I seek the aged thorn, The haunted wild and fairy ring, Where oft thy erring numbers borne, Have taught the wandering winds to sing.
— from The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

He felt himself doubly betrayed, by his friend and by her whom he already loved like a mistress.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

These insects seem to use their fore-legs to break the air; they are applied together before the head, and look like antennæ.—
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Jane has had a somewhat hard and lonely life, and she must embark upon her new voyage without a shadow of unhappiness.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy