D’Artagnan has turned aside from Buckingham, whom she hates as she hates everyone she has loved, the tempest with which Richelieu threatened him in the person of the queen.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

He stood there in dismay, his arms swinging, his eyes staring, his mouth agape.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"Leslie's wild for books and magazines," Miss Cornelia had told her, "and she hardly ever sees one.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

An instant later all was silent and deserted; the Count fixed his eyes on the house and strained his ears; still he mused, and still the huntsmen stood motionless behind him.—Then in the quiet deserted house arose first a murmur, then an uproar and merry cries, as in an empty hive when bees fly back into it: that was a sign that the guests had returned from hunting, and that the servants were busying themselves with breakfast.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

And even yet she cannot hear any mention of meal, or of a chest or of screaming, without her invariably saying: "Yes, it's a wonder that I didn't get my death that time you were shut up in the meal chest—but I've had a swollen heart ever since then—and that I can thank you for."
— from What Happened to Inger Johanne, as Told by Herself by Dikken Zwilgmeyer

"You are ready to swear to that?" he asked sharply, his eyes searching and steady and eager upon hers.
— from Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory

Ogier, desperate at the unequal contest, grasped Cortana with both hands, and struck his enemy such a blow that it cleft his buckler, and cut off his arm with it; but Bruhier at the same time launched one at Ogier, which, missing him, struck the head of Beiffror, and the good horse fell, and drew down his master in his fall.
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

He could never sing, and he would have to sit around with his stomach full of honey and see his eleven sisters gorged with blood and hear them singing sweetly as they flew.
— from Among the Night People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

The girl had arrived at Lupton House a half-hour ahead of Miss Westmacott, and upon her arrival she had expressed surprise, either feigned or real, at finding Ruth still absent.
— from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini

When this formidable vessel was completed, she was christened by her new owners the "Virginia;" but the name of the old United States frigate of which she was built stuck to her, and she has ever since been known as the "Merrimac," and so we shall speak of her in this narrative.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

How a sailor had ever settled there was a mystery to me, but there he was and apparently more than content.
— from When Santiago Fell; or, The War Adventures of Two Chums by Edward Stratemeyer

Neither pain nor pleasure was on her face: her breath came heavy and short, her eyes shone, that was all.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various