She saw he was in a "brown study," and, although his eyes looked dreamy ecstasy into hers, and a vague smile of as vague a content hovered about his lips, she would rather he lived outside himself.
— from A Woman Martyr by Alice M. (Alice Mangold) Diehl

Emil had evinced little desire, especially of late, to make friends in the neighborhood, and she had been so absorbed in her home and her husband's interest that she had disregarded her social opportunities.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

His portrait adorns the Trustees' room, and his eyes look down every June on his successors in the Board of Trustees, who are laboring to carry forward the work which he and his co-laborers commenced in 1825.
— from History of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia The Oldest Incorporated Methodist College in America by Richard Irby

[70] FOOTNOTES: [2] "La sphéricité de la terre étant reconnue, l'ètendue de la terre habitée en longitude déterminé, en même temps la largeur de l'Atlantique entre les côtes occidentales d'Europe et d'Afrique et les côtes orientales d'Asie par différens degrés de latitude.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

nullus ab eo Ric's ate Hache Junior Nich's ate Hache Rog's ate Hache Will's ate Hache Will's ate Hache Adam ate Hache Will's ate Hache Joh'es ate Hache Alic' ate Hache Nativus— Rog's ate Hache Matild' ate Hache Editha la Daye Emmot' ate Hache Marger' ate Hache Matild' ate Hache . .
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

It is true that, as has already been pointed out, many of the acts in his early longer dramas exhibit too strong a tendency to form self-independent pictures; yet it is this defect which forms the chief charm of his one-acters.
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel

The latter wore a rugged-looking countenance, and after a little coaxing told us something of his early life, dwelling especially upon the reason why the Amistads rose up and killed the officers of the vessel on which they were being carried to America.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 06, June, 1880 by Various

Only her eyes, long, dark, expressionless, were revealed above the gold tissue of her veil, and Over alone recognized her instantly.
— from The Travelling Thirds by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

I cited numbers and numbers of cases where young men had eventually lived down early mistakes, and finally been reinstated, to become, in the end, an honor to the land of their birth.
— from The Redemption of Kenneth Galt by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Cuire pendant vingt-et-cinq minutes, sortez les morceaux de homard en les dressant, et rendez le plat aussi élégant que possible.
— from Dinners and Diners: Where and How to Dine in London by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis