Ha! ha! ha!” “Ha! ha!” echoed Lady Louisa; “Well, I declare you are the drollest creature.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

His eye lacked lustre.—Not so, thought Susan P——; who, at the advanced age of sixty, was seen, in the cold evening time, unaccompanied, wetting the pavement of B——d Row, with tears that fell in drops which might be heard, because her friend had died that day—he, whom she had pursued with a hopeless passion for the last forty years—a passion, which years could not extinguish or abate; nor the long resolved, yet gently enforced, puttings off of unrelenting bachelorhood dissuade from its cherished purpose.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Cuando concluyó de hablar, en los labios del canónigo retozaba una sonrisilla, y sus ojos habían tomado animación extraordinaria.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Le loup eut la naïveté de croire ce maître hâbleur et le laissa partir.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

We hardly ever looked long at one another out of Marian's presence.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Wanting the radiant lustre of her eyes, letters, lambent and golden, grew duller than Saturnian lead.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

He presses his temples, he wriggles, and draws his legs up under his chair as though he were in pain, or half closes his eyes languidly like a cat on the sofa.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In his helter-skelter ramblings, indulged in despite his enormous literary labors, he took many a peep at Italy; and it is evident that for him the country exercised a powerful fascination.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac

He's white as de wall, and his eyes looks like glass."
— from Elsie's New Relations What They Did and How They Fared at Ion; A Sequel to Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

And now “his eternal life like a dream was obliterated.”
— from William Blake: A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge

On this point, Sir William Jones, one of the most learned judges that have ever lived, learned in Asiatic as well as European law, says,—and
— from An Essay on the Trial by Jury by Lysander Spooner

How she belittles everything with her everlasting laugh, laugh, laugh.
— from Mr. Waddington of Wyck by May Sinclair

Few have ever loved like me,—
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

Aunt Deane would hardly ever let Lucy come to see them, to Maggie's great regret.
— from Tom and Maggie Tulliver by George Eliot

cried Miss Varian, annoyed to have her errand look like a caprice.
— from Missy: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris