In her agitation and sudden movement the silk with which she had covered her face fell off and disclosed a countenance of incomparable and marvellous beauty, but pale and terrified; for she kept turning her eyes, everywhere she could direct her gaze, with an eagerness that made her look as if she had lost her senses, and so marked that it excited the pity of Dorothea and all who beheld her, though they knew not what caused it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When asked by those he met why he was taking along so unusual a load, he said that he would sharpen the dull wits of King Ingild to a point by bits of charcoal.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Make room, and let him stand before our face.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

It grieves, me, said the centinel, speaking to a little dwarfish bandy-legg'd drummer, that so courteous a soul should have lost his scabbard—he cannot travel without one to his scymetar, and will not be able to get a scabbard to fit it in all Strasburg.—I never had one, replied the stranger, looking back to the centinel, and putting his hand up to his cap as he spoke—I carry it, continued he, thus—holding up his naked scymetar, his mule moving on slowly all the time—on purpose to defend my nose.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Thus Lord Torrington's supporters are each placed upon dismounted ships' guns ["Dexter, an heraldic antelope ermine, horned, tusked, maned and hoofed or, standing on a ship gun proper; sinister, a sea-horse proper, on a like gun"], Lord Hawke's [27] dexter supporter rests his sinister foot upon a dolphin, and Lord Herschell's supporters each stand upon a fasces
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Cournet let them get away, and then, pulling the check string, stopped the fiacre , got down leisurely, reclosed the door, quietly took forty sous from his purse, gave them to the coachman, who had not left his seat, and said to him, "Drive on.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

That gentleman has lost his senses, and I am the unhappy cause.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

To one of her passionate letters he sent back for reply a packet, which, when opened, was found to contain the emerald that had been the cause round which all this dark intrigue moved.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

For this sad sight I mourn, for none Is to the mother like her son.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

"Ay don't want ever to forget how you look," he said simply; "you who have done all this yust for me."
— from The Guardians of the Columbia Mount Hood, Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens by John H. (John Harvey) Williams

I have known myself cases not a few, where, by the very nicest gradations, and by steps too silent and insensible for daily notice, the utmost harmony and reciprocal love had shaded down into fretfulness and petulance, purely from too easy a life, and because all nobler agitations that might have ruffled the sensations occasionally, and all distresses even on the narrowest scale that might have reawakened the solicitudes of love, by opening necessities for sympathy—for counsel—or for mutual aid, had been shut out by foresight too elaborate, or by prosperity too cloying.
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

"Look here," said the irate look-out testily, rejecting the proffered pouch, "I like my own tobacco best, same as I like my own company best."
— from The Brighton Boys in Transatlantic Flight by James R. Driscoll

Then a stroke of ill-luck, which was not at all her fault, befell her, for in January there was a general election, the Conservatives were turned out, and worse than that, Mr. Harbinger lost his seat.
— from The Freaks of Mayfair by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Lionel's efforts were tremendous; he lifted, he spurred, he strained, he shouted, but all in vain: the animal, worn out by exertion, faltered, and would have fallen back, when the stranger, springing from his saddle, leaned over the bank, and, seizing Lionel by the collar, jerked him from his horse.
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

24:013:015 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 24: Jeremiah by Anonymous

Notwithstanding the lapse of time since which that battle had taken place considerable traces of it were still visible, particularly in the blood-stained walls and ruined, desolate, and half-consumed buildings of the keys of the position, Hougumont and La Haye Sainte, and the remnants of shakos, arms, and military clothing which strewed the field on all sides, and the fresh-made graves, where many thousand gallant fellows lay entombed.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

Lately, however, something in Rachel's manner had put an end to that.
— from In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon

Every tree, every leaf, house, seems to smile on you!
— from My Three Years in a German Prison by Henri Severin Beland