He followed with his eye each movement of Teresa and her cavalier; when their hands touched, he felt as though he should swoon; every pulse beat with violence, and it seemed as though a bell were ringing in his ears.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

At this crisis of the battle, the prince, who had been seconding De Chatillon in the second line, appeared in the midst of the fight; his eagle eye made him known and his blows proclaimed the hero.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“How much?” asked the banker, contracting the muscles of his eyes; “excuse me, I cannot see quite clearly.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

From these holes escaped every minute great birds of clumsy flight, which flew in all directions.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

En su valor The seed of fear has never no ha echado el miedo semilla. affected his courage, or will.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

[99-3] qué falta me haces en el mundo? ¿
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

He easily eluded me and said, “Be calm!
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

They had whistled for him a quarter of an hour; Hivert had even gone back a mile and a half expecting every moment to catch sight of her; but it had been necessary to go on.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Though they had ever since the spring been expecting Pyotr Verhovensky, whose coming had been heralded first by Tolkatchenko and then by the arrival of Shigalov, though they had expected extraordinary miracles from him, and though they had responded to his first summons without the slightest criticism, yet they had no sooner formed the quintet than they all somehow seemed to feel insulted; and I really believe it was owing to the promptitude with which they consented to join.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He had often, he said, himself regretted that he had not spent some time in study during his youth: he would neither have shot nor hunted with less skill, and he might have made the roof of Saint Stephen's echo to longer orations than were comprised in those zealous Noes, with which, when a member of the House during Godolphin's administration, he encountered every measure of government.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1 by Walter Scott

But I am talking a great deal, and this is the first time that I have ever explained my conduct.
— from Atlantida by Pierre Benoît

Upon the communication of the letter, it rushes all at once into the {413} mind of Mr.Larkins, who knows Mr. Hastings's recollection, who knows what does and what does not escape it, and who had a memory ready to explode at Mr. Hastings's desire, "Good God!" says he, "you have promised the Directors an account of this business!"—a promise which Mr. Larkins assures the Directors, upon his word, had entirely escaped Mr. Hastings's recollection.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

However, Elizabeth evidently made progress in accomplishments, and was taught drawing, as well as music and dancing.
— from The Childhood of Distinguished Women by Selina A. Bower

Monsieur Dupont, however, was not satisfied until he had examined, even more minutely than Raymond had previously done, the priest's undergarments.
— from The Sin That Was His by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

He thought, as he watched from the corner of his eye, every movement of the slim, strong, boyish form, that she was unlike any girl he had ever known, and, because he had three nieces and they had ever so many friends, he really knew quite a bit about girls.
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott

he exclaimed-- "English midshipmen all of them.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green

Then away went the gentlemen; and Mary was again called to comfort Tom, who, broken down into the mere longing for sympathy, sobbed out all his troubles to her, while her eyes expanded more and more in horror, and her soft heart giving way, she cried quite as pitifully, and a great deal more loudly; and so the other sisters learned the whole, and Margaret was ready for her father when he came in, in the evening, harassed and sorrowful.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

He dashed his hand over his eyes every minute, and could not look anybody in the face.
— from The Crofton Boys by Harriet Martineau

The cities of Lombardy had formed a powerful confederacy, which gave Frederick continual cause of inquietude, and detained him in the West; Honorius employed every means in his power to re-establish peace, and direct men’s minds towards his darling object; and at last succeeded in getting the Lombard republics to join the emperor of Germany for the deliverance of the holy places.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud