The skin around his eye looked darker and it felt even more painful.
— from Corpus of a Siam Mosquito by Steven David Justin Sills

What the Rev. Andrew Rowbottom saw was a tall, handsome, fashionably-dressed woman of about thirty-six resting with her back to an office table, the position was crouching, her fingers clung to the table's edge; her eyes, large, dark, and instinct with mortal terror, were fixed upon the stranger in the doorway.
— from The Missing Link by Edward Dyson

Her eyes looked dreamy, as if she saw a vision; and by-and-bye she pulled the Bible towards her, and putting her finger underneath each word, began to read them aloud in a low voice to herself; she read again the words of bitter sorrow and deep humiliation; but most of all she paused and brightened over the father’s tender reception of the repentant prodigal.
— from Pearl-Fishing; Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words; First Series by Charles Dickens

Some of the Platonic commentators maintain, 150 that the doctrine here explicitly laid down and illustrated by Sokrates, viz.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

Nelly gave him one of her enigmatic looks, deep and inscrutable, shrugged her shoulders, put her hand on Frank's arm, and walked off with him.
— from The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The early English and French Socialists have shown long since how English legislation did all in its power to ruin the small industries, drive the peasant to poverty, and deliver over to wealthy industrial employers battalions of men, compelled to work for no matter what salary.
— from The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz