Mr. Kulm had evidently run all the way, for he was laboring heavily and his gait had long since slackened into a stumbling trot.
— from The Net by Rex Beach
he continued saying, keeping his eye ranging about in every direction in search of the expected hole.
— from Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by William Henry Giles Kingston
For the masters of the Kreuzschule he ever retained an affection, their genial bearing and friendly tuition comparing favourably with the pedantic overbearing demeanour of the masters of the St. Nicholas school in Leipzic, where he went later on, men who represented a past and effete dogmatic German pedantry.
— from Wagner as I Knew Him by Ferdinand Praeger
In the old days before the war, the graceful, sweet-expressioned archbishop, bending to this side and that, while the faithful kissed his episcopal ring and received his blessing, added to the beauty of the scene.
— from The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X by Sophia Beale
Again, in the course of turning to look at Kwaque, his eyes rested an instant on the lion-lines of Daughtry’s brow.
— from Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London
He kept his eyes rigorously averted from Isabel's pew, in passing; but when he reached the pulpit, and began unpinning his heavy gray shawl, he did glance at her, and his face grew warm.
— from Tiverton Tales by Alice Brown
He always kept his eyebrows raised, as if everything were new to him; they had almost grown into that position.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 by Martin Andersen Nexø
After taking several short turns, keeping her eyes resolutely away from the place where he was standing, Lady Sellingworth could not resist the impulse to look towards him to see what he was doing.
— from December Love by Robert Hichens
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