But Mrs. Stubbs fixed Alice with her eyes and replied meaningly, “It was liquid, my dear.” Liquid!
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

He opened his eyes and rose from the sofa, accurately to an hour from the time when he had gone to sleep.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Goodbye!" He turned to a hunting-gate in the hedge and, without letting his eyes again rest upon her, leapt over and struck out across the down in the direction of Abbot's-Cernel.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

He rubbed his eyes and roused himself; but he doubted, when he had done so, whether he was not still asleep.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

exclaimed Tamenund, opening his eyes, and regarding the scout sternly.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

“Come in,” said a woman's voice, and he entered a room so darkened by blinds and curtains that Miss Kate, the thin middle
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

THE SWEDISH MATCH (The Story of a Crime) I O N the morning of October 6, 1885, a well-dressed young man presented himself at the office of the police superintendent of the 2nd division of the S. district, and announced that his employer, a retired cornet of the guards, called Mark Ivanovitch Klyauzov, had been murdered.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

However, every added repulse of this sort which I received only tended to lessen the probability of my repeating the inadvertence.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

At this point, Mr Swiveller took the small servant’s hand in his again, and being, as we have seen, but poorly, might in struggling to express his thanks have made his eyes as red as hers, but that she quickly changed the theme by making him lie down, and urging him to keep very quiet.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Like Dante or Bunyan, he has a revelation of another life; like Bacon, he is profoundly impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics.
— from The Republic by Plato

What do you think I am—" He ended a red oration with a roar: "Damned if I do it any more."
— from Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane

His exploits are related in the Chansons de Geste ; he is introduced by Ariosto in Orlando Furioso , and by Morris in his Earthly Paradise (“August”).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

How eagerly and repeatedly did he scan the horizon for the coming breeze!
— from Newton Forster by Frederick Marryat

After she had passed her examinations and received her certificate of admission, she was advised by the Dean of Radcliffe and others not to go on.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

For years he persisted in his efforts at reconciliation, promising my grandfather to execute a will in his favour if he only would be friends again to the extent of calling now and then (it was fairly close neighbourhood for these parts, forty miles or so), or even of putting in an appearance for the great shoot on the name-day.
— from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad

"No," she thought, as she wiped the tears from her eyes, and resumed her sewing, "our men didn't hev all the strugglin's an' the trials; we women fought our battles, too; an' ours, afteh all, wuz the hardest parts.
— from Crestlands: A Centennial Story of Cane Ridge by Mary Addams Bayne

But Jean Baptiste never despaired, and [287] when success ultimately smiled on the French arms, he had established a reputation as a daring and capable squadron commander.
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

Feinstein pulled his hat over his eyes and, resting his cigar on the top of Rifkin's desk with the lighted end next to the wood, he drew Abe toward the rear of the office.
— from Potash & Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures by Montague Glass

The noise which still fills his ears, also, resembles rather the despairing cries of the Ten Thousand Lost Ones at the first sight of the Pit of Liquid and Red-hot Malachite, yet without question both proceed from the same cause.
— from The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah

In most of the plays, however, he exhibits a rather nervous talent, rich imagination, and uses very scintillating and picturesque language, if he is inclined to do so—and he is very often inclined.
— from Prince Zilah — Complete by Jules Claretie