The unbroken stillness of the parlour window leading me to infer, after a while, that she was not there, I lifted up my eyes to the window above it, where I saw a florid, pleasant-looking gentleman, with a grey head, who shut up one eye in a grotesque manner, nodded his head at me several times, shook it at me as often, laughed, and went away.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I wished for this, but durst not say so much, lest he should be angry; for, as the hours grew on, I found my apprehensions increase, and my silly heart was the unquieter, every time I could lift up my eyes to his dear face; so sweetly terrible did he appear to my apprehensions.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

But he gone at last upon my enquiry to tell us how (he having been here too for survey of the Ropeyard) the day’s work of the Rope-makers become settled, which pleased me very well.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I lifted up my eyes to heaven, and there, so near as to be almost within my reach, the brightest vision of our Lord and Saviour stood before me, enveloped with a light, ethereal mist, so bright and yet transparent that his divine figure could be seen distinctly, and my eyes were riveted upon him; for this bright vision seemed to touch my bed, standing at the foot, so near, and he stretched forth his left hand toward me, whilst with the right one he pointed to the throne of grace, and a voice came, saying, ‘Blessed are they who can see God; arise, take up thy cross and follow me; for though thy sins be as scarlet they shall be white as wool.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

He was silent for a few moments, and then he said hastily,–– "Pardon me, Miss Lawford; I have been betrayed into saying much that I had better have left unsaid, more especially to you.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Misfortunes very often make us forget our duty: instead of returning thanks to God for so singular a mercy shown me, I only lifted up my eyes to heaven, to complain because I had been saved.
— from The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4) by Anonymous

So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 26: Ezekiel by Anonymous

"I—I, the poor foreigner, the despised minstrel, dare to lift up my eyes to you!
— from Ernest Maltravers — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I fidgeted with the folds of my drapery, for another few seconds, and then answered nervously: "I hardly know, myself," then lifting up my eyes to his serious face again, I said as frankly as I knew how.
— from The Doctor's Daughter by Vera

Let us, meanwhile, endeavor to set before the readers of The Galaxy a fair and true picture of the man, free alike from the exaggerated proportions which wondering quid nuncs or parasites attribute [Pg 82] to him, and from the distortions of unfriendly painters.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

And I lifted up my eyes To hers, and deep within them saw a silent splendor More still, more strange than the planets' in the skies.
— from Perpetual Light : a memorial by William Rose Benét

They are felt to be an inadequate measure of our living Christianity, and to leave untouched many earnest thoughts that aspire and pray within the mind.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

Let us make every test, every experiment, down to the absurd: the crude absurdity of the moment has sometimes proved to be the truth of the morrow.
— from More Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre