31 Suffice it to say that such a myth appears to have existed with every people and in every age.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

He saw how closely compressed was his mouth, and that his eyes were wide-spread and vacant.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

He reasoned, like a man of sense, from natural causes; but the opposite party told him, that the whole was a miracle, and that his evidence was the very best proof of it.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Andres went off rather down in the mouth, swearing he would go to look for the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha and tell him exactly what had happened, and that all would have to be repaid him sevenfold; but for all that, he went off weeping, while his master stood laughing.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Herald,” said Manfred, as soon as he had digested these reflections, “return to thy master, and tell him, ere we liquidate our differences by the sword, Manfred would hold some converse with him.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

"Yet within this retired and narrow circle, how much, and that how exquisite, was contained!
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Alexander Pope

She must attend to his every want, and manage the farm and his business for him.
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

He kept his word for fully ten minutes, and then his efforts were vain.
— from Real Gold: A Story of Adventure by George Manville Fenn

Meanwhile, as the happy Emmeline went to prepare her little packet for her dear old nurse, the thought suddenly arose that St. Eval had sent his remembrances and adieus to Ellen only, he had not mentioned Caroline; and unsophisticated as she was, this struck her as something very strange, and she was not long in connecting this circumstance with his sudden departure.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

The Yellow Chief, who had strayed among them coming from afar, who had married the belle of their tribe—the beautiful daughter of their “medicine man”—who surpassed all of them in his hatred of the white race, and more than once had led them in a like murderous maraud against their hereditary enemies was the man after their heart, the type of a patriotic savage.
— from The Yellow Chief by Mayne Reid

If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian world.
— from Memoirs of My Life and Writings by Edward Gibbon

His features were expressive of the sanguine and adust temper of his mind; and, though his eye was animated, his countenance, as he entered, struck me as particularly solemn.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin