But this wrinkling, which is so characteristic of our own laughter, is more plainly seen in some other monkeys.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Now, there is no more use in making believe be angry with a negro than with a child; both instinctively see the true state of the case, through all attempts to affect the contrary; and Sam was in no wise disheartened by this rebuke, though he assumed an air of doleful gravity, and stood with the corners of his mouth lowered in most penitential style.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sated at length, ere long I might perceive Strange alteration in me, to degree Of reason in my inward powers; and speech Wanted not long; though to this shape retained.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Sated at length, ere long I might perceave Strange alteration in me, to degree Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech Wanted not long, though to this shape retaind.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

A lump in my pocket: symbols soiled by greed and misery.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

After that he ‘took a pull on himself,’ so to speak, and folding up the evidently offensive missive, put it with the others, then lapsed into moody, preoccupied silence until the breakfast was over.
— from A Son of Mars, volume 2 by Arthur Griffiths

What a surprisingly powerful effect, so much and so long in my power she! so instigated by some of her own sex, and so stimulated by passion I!— How can this be accounted for in a Lovelace!
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 by Samuel Richardson

"The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
— from Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross

My solo happiness, hereafter, will consist in giving your Imperial Majesty continual proofs of my unbounded devotion and respect for your person, of which thirty years of constant and zealous service to the Emperors, my father and brother, are the pledge, in which sentiments I wish to serve your Imperial Majesty, and your successors, until the end of my life, in my present situation and functions.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various

I look into my past, said Stephen.
— from Long Will by Florence Converse

Her graceful report, which has lain in my portfolio since 1893, now comes to light with its waiting companions: Mrs. Reed’s Report.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

426—I have looked into most philosophical systems, and I have seen none that will work without a God. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

For example, the striped pigmentation of the leaves in many plants (such as Eulalia japonica ), the striped or clouded colouring of many feathers or of a cat’s skin, the patterns of many fishes, such for instance as the brightly coloured tropical Chaetodonts and the like, are all regarded by him as so many instances of “diffusion-figures” closely related to the typical Liesegang phenomenon.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Besides, my Pelham, it cannot have escaped your observation, that there is little in my present state which promises a long increase of days: the few that remain to me must glide away like their predecessors; and whatever be the infirmities of my body, and the little harassments which, I am led to suspect, do occasionally molest the most fortunate, who link themselves unto the unstable and fluctuating part of creation, which we term women, more especially in an hymeneal capacity—whatever these may be, I have my refuge and my comforter in the golden-souled and dreaming Plato, and the sententious wisdom of the less imaginative Seneca.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron