Three queens has he: each lovely dame Like Beauty, Modesty, or Fame.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

688 When Porus, who exhibited great talent in the battle, performing the deeds not only of a general but also of a valiant soldier, observed the slaughter of his cavalry, and some of his elephants lying dead, others destitute of keepers straying about in a forlorn condition, while most of his infantry had perished, he did not depart as Darius the Great King did, setting an example of flight to his men; but as long as any body of Indians remained compact in the battle, he kept up the struggle.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Besides, Father Zossima could not have carried on an uninterrupted narrative, for he was sometimes gasping for breath, his voice failed him, and he even lay down to rest on his bed, though he did not fall asleep and his visitors did not leave their seats.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ordeno questo hordine et lo dete atuti li piloti et maeſtri de le ſue naui Loqual era lui de note ſempre voleua andar inanzi dele altre naui et elle ſeguitaſeno la ſua con vna facela grande de legnio che la quiamano farol Qual ſemp̃ portaua pendẽte de la popa de la Sua naue queſto ſegniale era acio de continuo lo ſeguitaſeno se faceua vno alt o fuoco con vna lanterna ho cõ vno pezo
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

But here a sort of scene began to ensue: The ladies,—who by no means had been bred To be disposed of in a way so new, Although their haram education led Doubtless to that of doctrines the most true, Passive obedience,—now raised up the head, With flashing eyes and starting tears, and flung Their arms, as hens their wings about their young, O'er the promoted couple of brave men Who were thus honour'd by the greatest chief That ever peopled hell with heroes slain, Or plunged a province or a realm in grief.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

I looked steadfastly at him, and perceived that his eyes looked dull and glazed.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

"I should—like—that," he said very slowly, his eyes looking dreamy.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

You shall be married to-morrow, and we'll put off the rest of his education, like Dr. Drowsy's sermons, to a fitter opportunity.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

"That darkesome glen they enter, where they find That cursed man low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind; His griesly lockes long gronen and unbound, Disordered hong about his shoulders round, And hid his face, through which his hollow eyne Lookt deadly dull, and stared as astound; His raw-bone cheekes, through penurie and pine, Were shronke into the jawes, as he did never dine.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

I stood for nearly half an hour engrossed in the contemplation of his extreme beauty and gigantic proportions; and, if there had been no elephants, I could have exclaimed, like Duke Alexander of Gordon when he killed the famous old stag with seventeen tine, “Now I can die happy.”
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

His eyes looked down almost tenderly at the girl with the still bravely uptilted chin.
— from The Tangled Threads by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

But his eyes looked down sidelong, searching Bland's face for his inmost thought.
— from Skyrider by B. M. Bower

Generally, two or three league together, and while one engages Old Coffee in some interesting conversation touching his wife and family at home, another snatches the first thing he can lay hands on in the oven, and rapidly passes it to the third man, who at his earliest leisure disappears with it.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

Par Clement Huart et Louis Delaporte.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Her lips moved constantly, her eyes looked down.
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth

If I were your husband's superior here I should be his superior in heaven or hell: equality lies deeper than that.
— from Getting Married by Bernard Shaw