He put his two hands on her shoulders and looked straight into her tearful face.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

but so he laid him down upon his bed, and there he swooned and lay as he had been dead.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

When Amrou was conducted before the præfect, he remembered his dignity, and forgot his situation: a lofty demeanor, and resolute language, revealed the lieutenant of the caliph, and the battle-axe of a soldier was already raised to strike off the head of the audacious captive.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He has seen a little, and but a little, service, and yet, if you will take his word to it, there has not been a great action performed in the field since the Revolution, in which he was not principally concerned.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

His noble wife was by his side, And Lakshmaṇ in the battle tried.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Look, hasn't he stuck a love-letter among them?' "'No, grandmother,' I said, 'there isn't a love-letter.'
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I knew I should come back," he said at length.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Un día le añade a tal mata [68-8] 30 un puñadillo de estiércol; otro le echa una chorreadita de agua; ora las limpia a todas de orugas y demás insectos dañinos; ora cura a las enfermas, entablilla a las fracturadas, y pone parapetos de caña y hojas secas a las que no pueden resistir los rayos del sol o están demasiado expuestas a los (p69) vientos del mar; ora, en fin, cuenta los tallos, las hojas, las flores o los frutos de las más adelantadas y precoces, y les habla, las acaricia, las besa, las bendice y hasta les pone
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The Master examined our work over his spectacles, and looked up and down the border critically, ending his survey with an unpromising "Humph."
— from How the Garden Grew by Maud Maryon

He stole a look at her.
— from Helena by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Jane then saw her sisters and little brother off to school, and went into her kitchen to give her household directions before she went out.
— from Principle and Practice: The Orphan Family by Harriet Martineau

But he remembered to have seen a letter now and then, a little letter with a fine and delicate handwriting.
— from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Auguste Groner

"I will have the body carried down to the Abbey," he said, at length.
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

When no telegram was awaiting Lord Fordyce at —— where they breakfasted, he remarked to Michael: "She does not mind your coming—or she would have wired—I wish I were as indifferent about it—Michael—" and Henry stammered a little—"you'll promise me as a friend—you will not look into her eyes with your confounded blue ones and try to cut me out."
— from The Man and the Moment by Elinor Glyn

Becky had been singing, and she had stopped and looked
— from The Trumpeter Swan by Temple Bailey

There was no sign of any damage to the boat, but the loggy way in which it moved showed that it had shipped a lot of water.
— from The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove; Or, The Missing Chest of Gold by Spencer Davenport