Still, when he looked at her again and again as she moved about or sat at her work, there was a change: the cheeks were as pink as ever, and she smiled as much as she had ever done of late, but there was something different in her eyes, in the expression of her face, in all her movements, Adam thought—something harder, older, less child-like.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

To the eyes of some it has been represented by the venal suffrages of a few of the satellites of power; to others by the votes of a timid or an interested minority; and some have even discovered it in the silence of a people, on the supposition that the fact of submission established the right of command.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

she screamed, in a voice from which all the usual melody and sweetness had entirely departed.
— from The Angel by Guy Thorne

"In this situation, as I could not conquer nature, I submitted entirely to her, and she made as great a fool of me as she had ever done of any woman whatsoever: under pretence of giving me leave to enjoy, she drew me to suffer the company of my little ones, during eight hours; and I doubt not whether, in that time, I did not undergo more than in all my distemper.
— from Fielding by Austin Dobson

No, she distrusted him as much as she had ever done.
— from If Sinners Entice Thee by William Le Queux

In this situation, as I could not conquer Nature, I submitted entirely to her, and she made as great a fool of me as she had ever done of any woman whatsoever; under pretense of giving me leave to enjoy, she drew me in to suffer, the company of my little ones during eight hours; and I doubt not whether, in that time, I did not undergo more than in all my distemper.
— from The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

In this situation, as I could not conquer Nature, I submitted entirely to her, and she made as great a fool of me as she had ever done of any woman whatsoever; under pretence of giving me leave to enjoy, she drew me in to suffer, the company of my little ones during eight hours; and I doubt not whether, in that time, I did not undergo more than in all my distemper.
— from The Works of Henry Fielding, vol. 11 A Journey From This World to the Next; and A Voyage to Lisbon by Henry Fielding

"Fracture my armor!" says he, ecstatically, "did I ever survey so much Shape!"
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 3 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

"Mrs. Durham glanced at the Alderman rather in amazement, I thought, as if he had suddenly taken leave of his senses, but she looked at me as she has ever done in a most kindly way.
— from The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton

To the eyes of some it has been represented by the venal suffrages of a few of the satellites of power; to others, by the votes of a timid minority; and some have even discovered it in the silence of a people, on the supposition that the fact of submission established the right of command.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Little something ,” she heard him murmur, and she hoped Ella did not suspect that the half inaudible word was “fool”—“nothing, no conjunction of things could have been more annoying.”
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth

She smiled to reassure him; but, unconsciously, she had drawn an eddy of the younger men in the room about her, and when she was not dancing she was talking with them, laughingly, fielding their crude witticisms, and enjoying the game as much as she had ever done.
— from The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard