Let me ask how many boys out of a hundred in Australia, or England either, have ever read Sturt or Mitchell, Eyre, Leichhardt, Grey, or Stuart.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

Her eyes rested steadily on me, while she spoke.
— from Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins

"That is all there is to tell," he said presently, and I saw that his eyes rested searchingly on me, as though he would read the thoughts in my mind.
— from The Coming of the King by Joseph Hocking

I seem, as you say, to be ruining myself; and yet Paz keeps the house with such method and economy that he has even repaired some of my foolish losses at play,—the thoughtless folly of a young man.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

But no; his eyes rested serenely on my face: he seemed to be sorry for me, to deplore my indiscretion.
— from The Last Miracle by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

But, as he leant against the wall of the passage, waiting for Mrs. Lesly, his countenance became more and more haggard in appearance, and his bloodless lips and heavy eyes rather spoke of mental pain than the fatigue of bodily exertion.
— from Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Newby, C. J., Mrs.