But those wild eyes met his, as the bloodshot eyes of the prairie wolves meet the eye of their leader, ere he rushes on at their head in the trail of the bison; but, alas!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

But in God there may be no wrath, as to my sight: for our good Lord endlessly hath regard to His own worship and to the profit of all that shall be saved.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The game constituted the only dish at supper; the meat was excellent, and Pencroft and Herbert, whose long excursion had rendered them very hungry, devoured it with infinite satisfaction.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Thus we commonly regard it as an individual’s moral duty, under the head of Justice, to “give every man his own,” even when—through some accident—the other party has not the power of legally enforcing his right; but still, in considering what is the other’s “own,” we assume him generally to be guided by the law of his state; if that were changed, his moral duty would change with it.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Apart from conditions of war and law, that look established human relations between the two men.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

‘Like enough,’ he returned; ‘though there’s a sarcastic meaning in that observation for an amiable piece of innocence like my young friend.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Upon this the good lady expressed her readiness to send for feather beds and cushions, but her husband expressed a preference for slumbering in an armchair, and she therefore departed.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

This power, first put in action by the will and understanding, and retained under their irremissive, though gentle and unnoticed, control, laxis effertur habenis, reveals "itself in the balance or reconcilement of opposite or discordant" qualities: of sameness, with difference; of the general with the concrete; the idea with the image; the individual with the representative; the sense of novelty and freshness with old and familiar objects; a more than usual state of emotion with more than usual order; judgment ever awake and steady self-possession with enthusiasm and feeling profound or vehement; and while it blends and harmonizes the natural and the artificial, still subordinates art to nature; the manner to the matter; and our admiration of the poet to our sympathy with the poetry.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Dawn peeps in at the window, she paints the sky with red; And over our loving embraces her rosy rays are shed: She looks on the slumbering world, love, with eyes that seem divine.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

At the same gathering appeared “A Lion enjoying his Repast.”
— from Sir Edwin Landseer by Frederic George Stephens

Heretofore all remonstrances to the man in command had received no attention, but at last even he realized the situation and distributed tents among the sick, and made some effort to improve the food.
— from Beyond the Old Frontier: Adventures of Indian-Fighters, Hunters, and Fur-Traders by George Bird Grinnell

What little education he received was obtained at the public schools.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

Every one knows how in his last edition he rewrote some of his early stories to make them more subtle.
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby

An idea came which would at least extend his respite and give him more time for thought.
— from Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott

He requested them to meet at Harrodsburg, for the purpose of moving against the Indian town of Chillicothe, and there in a short time were gathered three hundred men, among them being the veteran Indian fighters, Harrod and Logan, each holding rank as Captain, but Boone was not a member of the expedition.
— from The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Livius explained his remote antecedents only after he had got Colonel Graeme's private ear.
— from Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Last evening he received a letter from Arsene Lupin saying he was going to break into his Paris house this very morning.
— from Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc