Once more opening his mouth and shutting his eyes, and laughing like a stentor, Kit gradually backed to the door, and roared himself out.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

I should also regret it on account of such as have, in my lifetime, valued me, and whose conversation I should like to have enjoyed a little longer; and I beseech you, my brother, if I leave the world, to carry to them for me an assurance of the esteem I entertained for them to the last moment of my existence.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

She opened her eyes and, looking lovingly, said I had given her great pleasure, but she felt as if something enormous was stretching her inside to the utmost.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I could not help exclaiming, and Lawrence looked up with a rather reproachful glance.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Pretty soon a splendid young man come galloping down the road, setting his horse easy and looking like a soldier.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

And then was he ware of a falcon came flying over his head toward an high elm, and long lunes about her feet, and as she flew unto the elm to take her perch the lunes over-cast about a bough.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The next day he did his exercise a little less badly, and he received but twenty blows.
— from Candide by Voltaire

Venning recovered his bundle, and turned to retrace his steps, but for the time his heavy eyes were no longer faithful guides, and, instead of taking the right direction, he entered a likely looking opening through the trees to the left and hurried on.
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

"With pallid cheek and haggard eye, And loud laments, and heartfelt sigh, Unpitied, hopeless of relief, She drinks the bitter cup of grief.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ireland

He did not see a trace of the hated Fishery Commissioners, and by the time he had eaten a light luncheon, he began to think they were little more than an amiable fiction of a jovial Government.
— from Tempest-Driven: A Romance (Vol. 2 of 3) by Richard Dowling

I am sure this was what the fellow meant by his sneer at the Protestants, and their gadding from one doctrine to another; but there was no call and no time to have a battle with him, as by this time we had entered a large lawn covered with haycocks, and prettily, as I think, ornamented with a border of blossoming potatoes, and drove up to the front door of the convent.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

He emitted a low laugh, which struck her with terror.
— from Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

Sometimes she would look up and surprise his eyes fixed upon her, and one day she found at her elbow a long list made out in a painstaking hand.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

Pretty soon a splendid young man came galloping down the road, setting his horse easy and looking like a soldier.
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

He had been leaning against a pillar, gazing after the divinity in the ivy crown, with his heart in his eyes, and Lady Louise was the last person in the universe he had been thinking of.
— from The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance by May Agnes Fleming