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Her eyes fell together

Her eyes fell together; she was awake, yet she was asleep.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

had escaped from the

About this time I noticed several men trying to get through the crowd to speak with me, and called to some black people to make room for them; when they reached me, they explained that they were officers of our army, who had been prisoners, had escaped from the rebel prison and guard, and were of course overjoyed to find themselves safe with us.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

had evidently found that

He had evidently found that a clear head, a general complaisance, a willingness to bend and oblige where he could not overawe, would lead him to his objects,—that he could trick men and manage them.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

his eyes finding that

Silent, with something of scorn in his smile, Soames seemed to notice nothing; but now and again his eyes, finding that which they sought, would fix themselves on a point in the shifting throng, and the smile die off his lips.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

his eyelids fled The

But sleep'st thou now, when from yon hill the foe Hangs o'er the fleet, and shades our walls below?" At this, soft slumber from his eyelids fled; The warrior saw the hoary chief, and said: "Wondrous old man!
— from The Iliad by Homer

have expected from the

But the policy of Theodosius derived more solid benefit from the death, than he could have expected from the most faithful services, of his ally.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

her eyes from the

' Valancourt understood her feelings, and was silent; had she raised her eyes from the ground she would have seen tears in his.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

he entirely fails to

A great portion of this book exposing the subtle propaganda of Socialism and Pacifism is admirable; it is only where the author attempts to lay all this to the charge of the Jesuits that he entirely fails to substantiate his case.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

handsome enough from the

It looked handsome enough from the river; and even from the negro-huts, which were nearer the creek, it had an agreeable appearance; particularly when the children were playing together on the lawn, which they did, and sometimes white and black together, nearly all day long.
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird

He emerged from the

He emerged from the concealing thicket and peered cautiously about, seeing nothing.
— from The Red Dust by Murray Leinster

Homer except from the

It does not appear allowable to follow Damm in rendering this as oil made from roses: for we have no such thing as ἔλαιον in Homer, except from the olive-tree.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

happy event for the

At the beginning of 1762 a happy event for the king took place.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

hand eagerly for the

When we reached his apartments he thrust out his hand eagerly for the letter, which I gave to him.
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr

has escaped from the

He is likely to use them enough in any case provided he ensures the formation of pure vowel sounds, and people seem to have an extraordinary facility for over-doing the use of lip movements, for getting the teeth in the way and thus spoiling tone, that was begun well, before it has escaped from the mouth.
— from Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) by Wesley Mills

had entered from the

Behind them a large sea gate was just swinging shut, through which the ship had entered from the canal.
— from The Ethical Engineer by Harry Harrison

her eggs for three

The hen sits on her eggs for three weeks; and when the chicks are hatched, she takes the greatest care of them, gathering them under her wings when danger is near or the weather is at all cold; and she is ready to fight a hawk or even a dog in defence of her little ones.
— from The National Nursery Book With 120 illustrations by Unknown

his exertions for the

"Mr. Adams formed the resolution of trying, by calculation, to account for the anomalies in the motion of Uranus on the hypothesis of a more distant planet, when he was an undergraduate in this university, and when his exertions for the academical distinction, which he obtained in January 1843, left him no time for pursuing the research.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

house escaped from the

As soon as she could do so unobserved, she left the house, escaped from the town, notwithstanding the vigilance of the sentinels, and took the road to Moy, running as fast as she was able, without shoes or stockings, which to accelerate her progress she had taken off, in order to inform the Prince of the danger which menaced him.
— from The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection by Various

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