Touching our present condition, dear Brother, we are a captive in the hands of certain lawless and godless men, who have not feared to detain our person, and put us to ransom; whereby we have also learned of Front-de-Boeuf's misfortune, and that thou hast escaped with that fair Jewish sorceress, whose black eyes have bewitched thee.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

But I must add this, that her evasion was conducted with so pretty a melancholy and deprecation, with so many, and even passionate declarations of her liking for me, and trust in my honor, and with so many promises that I should at last know all, that I could not find it in my heart long to be offended with her.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

But in spite of his poverty, he was naturally endowed with a round waist, a broad back, a fat face, a square mouth; added to this, his eyebrows were swordlike, his eyes resembled stars, his nose was straight, his cheeks square.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

In the forests, where birds, like animated blossoms, living chips of dazzling colours, hop from boughs, climb stems, run along silvery bark on trees, hopping, jumping, tapping, talking, chattering, screaming, with bills that move and throats that heave even when their voices cannot be heard in the feathered babel.
— from From Squire to Squatter: A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables

"At this moment," answered the treasurer, "his expedition with a few tens of men to the temple of Ptah seems to me inconceivable madness!"
— from The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Bolesław Prus

Gregorics was quite softened by the music, and three times he exclaimed: "What a wonderful voice!"
— from St. Peter's Umbrella: A Novel by Kálmán Mikszáth

“When Arthur turned on him Lyle hesitated for a moment, and then told him exactly what was the case against him.
— from In the Fog by Richard Harding Davis

The manaia and the taupo had each written songs and composed music for the dances in our honor, and copies of them, written out neatly by the schoolmaster, were presented to us.
— from The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

“When Arthur turned on him, Lyle hesitated for a moment, and then told him exactly what was the case against him.
— from Ranson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis

"You do not understand how many things pressed upon me at the time," he explained with difficulty.
— from The Northern Light by E. Werner

Is it to be wondered at then that Mr. Parsons lost his head for the moment, and that though his eyes were busily employed he forgot to use his ears; he forgot to note that Lord Hetton's breathing, which was a heavy snore when he entered the room, was now inaudible.
— from The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 2 (of 3) by C. J. (Charles James) Wills

Upon the man at the telephone her eyes were fixed in fascination.
— from The Frame Up by Richard Harding Davis