I looked still more attentively—and actually there did move under the ear something that was pitiably small and poor and slim.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

More uniforms than ever seemed to be out.
— from The Ocean Wireless Boys on the Atlantic by John Henry Goldfrap

The banks, and the bushes, and the rushing water went by me until I came upon—but though the Lord hath made us to endure such things, he hath not compelled us to enlarge upon them.
— from Tales from the Telling-House by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

“A little more under the eyes,” said the Emperor to the Queen; “lay on the rouge like a fury, as that lady does.”
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

"A little more under the eyes," said the Emperor to the Queen; "lay on the rouge like a fury, as that lady does."
— from Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 3 Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen by Mme. (Jeanne-Louise-Henriette) Campan

Long-Shanks showed an ugly grin, behind which he tried to hide the shame of his defeat; Little-Boy, with fists still doubled, followed every one of his movements with blazing eyes, ready at a moment to spring once more upon the enemy should the latter renew the attack.
— from Good Blood by Ernst von Wildenbruch

There is no social system that can absolutely abolish vicissitudes, because many of them depend on causes over which man has no possible control, such as the harvests of the world, and others on causes over which no single society of men has any control, such as wars; and, besides, it is possible to do a great deal more under the existing system than is at present done, to mitigate and neutralize some of their worst effects.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Drusus smote the man under the ear so that he fell without a groan; but Agias himself had been thrown from the parapet on to the bridge; the soldiers were thronging around.
— from A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. by William Stearns Davis

Accordingly, about the month of August, Demosthenês sailed from Athens to Naupaktus, where he collected his Akarnanian allies,—now stronger and more united than ever, since the refractory inhabitants of Œniadæ had been at length compelled to join their Akarnanian brethren: moreover, the neighboring Agræans with their prince Salynthius were also brought into the Athenian alliance.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote