He puts in his ears gold ear-rings, round the neck a necklace called [ 57 ] chakra (wheel) mala, 21 on the right wrist a gold bracelet, gold rings on the fingers, a gold or silver chain round the loins, and a gold or silver-handled knife with a sheath of the same metal.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

But this man, whom we have seen shake in his shoes at a Giles-o'-lanthorn, never wavered in this awful moment of real danger, but stood there, his body all braced for combat, and his eye glowing, equally ready to take life and lose it.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

She gasped, and her eyes grew even rounder.
— from A Knyght Ther Was by Robert F. Young

Here also grateful mixture of well-matched And sorted hues (each giving each relief, And by contrasted beauty shining more) Is needful.
— from The Task, and Other Poems by William Cowper

The rope had evidently got entangled round her waist, and was being more closely twined at each fresh effort.
— from The Soil (La terre): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

For a while the clear radiance of the stars lighted the looming mountains; but when wastes of naked rock gave place to ragged woods, lakes and pits of darkness spread suddenly before her; every gully, every ravine brimmed level with treacherous shadows, masking the sheer fall of rock plunging downward into fathomless depths.
— from Special Messenger by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

George Brown Heathcote Euphrasia Grey, E. R.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

Only with her eyes she spoke to him, and the tears which flowed from her eyes gave eloquent reply to his.
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach