They kept her out of the way of other friends who might have eligible sons or brothers; and it was also agreed that she never seemed to take much pleasure in the society of any one but Henry, out of their own family.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Header’s will be sure to seem incredible to some landsmen, though they themselves may have either seen or heard of some one
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Wooden legs, armless sleeves, numberless graves, fatherless and motherless homes everywhere speak of somebody's carelessness, somebody's blunders, somebody's habit of inaccuracy.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Having thus completed the change of that which related to my person, all my cares tendered to render it solid and lasting, by striving to root out from my heart everything susceptible of receiving an impression from the judgment of men, or which, from the fear of blame, might turn me aside from anything good and reasonable in itself.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I may have effected something, or his wildness may have spent itself; but by degrees he struggled less, and began to look at me—strangely at first, then with recognition in his eyes.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He found out in time the trick that was about to be played him, and managed to make his escape; some of his biographers say, by jumping into the Thames, and swimming to a vessel that lay waiting to receive him.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Madame de Villefort must have experienced something of the sensation of a bird which, looking up, sees the murderous trap closing over its head.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Her husband frequently complained of all the privations she made him endure; some of them were particularly painful to him, as they touched his vanity.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Six months had elapsed since our first visit, and, as then, we were full of the exuberance of young and joyful hearts.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

For if that I devised you all that is beyond the sea, another man, peradventure, that would pain him and travail his body for to go into those marches for to ensearch those countries, might be blamed by my words in rehearsing many strange things; for he might not say nothing of new, in the which the hearers might have either solace, or disport, or lust, or liking in the hearing.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

It rests upon a base of 4·35 metres square and 2·85 metres high, each side of which is adorned with three rectangular niches ·20 metre deep and ·36 metre wide.
— from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

She had indeed, during the Admiral's absence on his last voyage, manifested some new appreciation of his services, which cost her little, however, when she made his eldest son one of her bodyguard and naturalized his brother Diego, to fit him for ecclesiastical preferment.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

He turned his back to Andromeda, while he did this lest by mischance her eyes should open and see the head of the Gorgon.
— from Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang

Perhaps, if I had kept myself quiet, I might have escaped some of the evils I afterwards endured; but, as I have repeatedly told you, gentlemen, it was my ill fortune never to be able to judge what was best to be done, till the time for prudence was past.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

Much more, indeed, he might have written; but he gives a truly ingenuous reason for checking his pen: "And therefore, now that I have devised you of certain countries which I have spoken of before, I beseech your worthy and excellent nobleness that it suffice to you at this time; for if I told you all that is beyond the sea, another man perhaps, who would labor to go into those parts to seek those countries, might be blamed by my words in rehearsing many strange things; for he might not say any thing new, in which the hearers might have either solace or pleasure."
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Whatever was the story, the woman lived in its terrors; she cowered and moaned, her eyes stood out, and her face was a face distorted by the horror of a soul in fear.
— from Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Hilary Trent

For some minutes his eyes seemed of themselves, without any commission from him, to make inquiry of his surroundings.
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

After which cruel and devilish imprecation, helped on by Winnie Annie’s horrible art used at Margaret’s instigation, Andrew Wilson became “frenatik” and stark mad: his eyes starting out of his head in the most terrible and frightful manner as he went about, ever pronouncing these words as his ordinary and continual speech—the [Pg 85] perpetual raving of his madness—“The devill ryve the saull out
— from Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

To persons who were but slightly acquainted with her, the energy of her manner had even something of the air of eccentricity."
— from Character by Samuel Smiles

His crafty methods had elicited something of real value after all.
— from The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly by Margaret Burnham