A plump little rosy baby, sprawling and snuggling, chubby little hands and feet, clean tiny little nails, so tiny that it makes one laugh to look at them; eyes that look as if they understand everything.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Excepting the moments of peculiar delight, which any marked or unlooked-for instance of Edmund's consideration of her in the last few months had excited, Fanny had never known so much felicity in her life, as in this unchecked, equal, fearless intercourse with the brother and friend who was opening all his heart to her, telling her all his hopes and fears, plans, and solicitudes respecting that long thought of, dearly earned, and justly valued blessing of promotion; who could give her direct and minute information of the father and mother, brothers and sisters, of whom she very seldom heard; who was interested in all the comforts and all the little hardships of her home at Mansfield; ready to think of every member of that home as she directed, or differing only by a less scrupulous opinion, and more noisy abuse of their aunt Norris, and with whom (perhaps the dearest indulgence of the whole) all the evil and good of their earliest years could be gone over again, and every former united pain and pleasure retraced with the fondest recollection.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

He had apparently never parted from the girl, and now as they sat together on the threshold of the gloomy tower, he most have been teaching her more Slavic words, for they were both laughing as if they understood each other perfectly.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2 by William Dean Howells

She now leaned eagerly out of the window, to examine a travelling chariot which had driven up to the door, from whence a lady, apparently in the utmost extreme of weakness, was carefully supported out by a gentleman, and before another moment could elapse, Marion had rushed down stairs, and was clasped in the arms of Clara Granville.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

Even the dogs are listening, as if they understood every word he said.”
— from Wild Life in the Land of the Giants: A Tale of Two Brothers by Gordon Stables

and—what does it all mean, Macumazahn?” “Very little, as I think, Umslopogaas, except that this queen has powers to which those of Zikali are as nothing, and can cause visions to float before the eyes of men.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

He laughed amusedly in the upturned eyes which were searching his.
— from Miss Gibbie Gault by Kate Langley Bosher

Any great building seems to me, while I look at it, the ultimate expression.
— from A Little Tour in France by Henry James