"There now," he said, "lie down an' git some sleep.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

He stood looking down and meditating.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Not one man in a thousand but would have "squealed," "laid down" and settled at ten or twenty cents on the dollar.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

[Letters of Two Brides.] STANHOPE (Lady Esther), niece of Pitt, met Lamartine in Syria, who described her in his "Voyage en Orient"; had sent Lady Dudley an Arabian horse, that the latter gave to Felix de Vandenesse in exchange for a Rembrandt.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

So one beautiful still evening Dickon told the whole story, with all the thrilling details of the buried key and the robin and the gray haze which had seemed like deadness and the secret Mistress Mary had planned never to reveal.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Saying this, he went off to his study, lay down, and for a long while could not get to sleep.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Thou at the sight Pleas'd, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile, While by thee rais'd I ruin all my Foes, Death last, and with his Carcass glut the Grave: Then with the multitude of my redeemd 260 Shall enter Heaven long absent, and returne, Father, to see thy face, wherein no cloud Of anger shall remain, but peace assur'd, And reconcilement; wrauth shall be no more Thenceforth, but in thy presence Joy entire.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

he said, looking down at her with some curiosity.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

He stood looking down at the patient with his brow knit, and I noticed a fidgety movement about one of his feet.
— from Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn

He stood looking down at her fixedly, as was sometimes his habit.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

A deep sigh sounded close to his ears as he finished his soliloquy, so heavy, so long drawn, and so startling, that his blood curdled in his veins.
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

He stood looking down at her, stroking his goatee, and marvelling at the ways of woman.
— from The Crisis — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill

They have been described by Lieutenants Duane, Hayden, Strong, Lord Dunraven, and many others.
— from Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. Late Retired General. U. S. A. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

He stood looking down at her.
— from Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris

it's all ... mighty involved, Sophy," he stammered, looking down at the snowstorm paper-weight which he had picked up and was turning nervously round and round.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

In the early annals of Canada, there are few names more revered than that of Father Peter Mary Joseph Chaumonot, whose impassioned eloquence gathered round him at Onondaga the braves and sachems of the Iroquois, wondering to hear their unlabial language flow so smoothly from the lips of a white man—who founded at Montreal the Society of the Holy Family, which has been such a potent instrument in maintaining in Canadian homes the true family spirit of Catholicity and devotion—and who founded near Quebec a new Loretto in this Western world for the Huron Indians, whom he so long directed and guided, after he saw himself deprived of the martyr’s crown which so many of his fellow-laborers won near the shores of Lake Huron.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various