To doubt the genuineness of the passage, then, on the ground that it is not humorous enough for Shakespeare, seems to me to show this want.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The Neapolitans have eyes for signs and traces like these in question as quick, sharp, and unerring as an Indian on a trail.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Now his eye followed sailing islands of white cloud, drifting to and fro above them.
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

But he with garrulous and laughing tongue Broke up his news; how Eros, fallen sick, Lay tossing on his bed, to frenzy stung By such a burn as did but barely prick: A little bleb, no bigger than a pease, Upon his shoulder 'twas, that kill'd his ease, Fever'd his heart, and made his breathing thick.
— from The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas by Robert Bridges

Marry-me-quick's cottage was no hovel, either for size or appointments.
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

By an unconscious movement he threw forward his rifle over the log which concealed him, and was preparing to secure a certain aim, when War–Eagle, touching his arm, whispered, “Netis not shoot, more Dahcotahs are coming,—noise of gun not good here, Netis have enough fight soon,—leave this man to War–Eagle, he give Netis back his horse.”
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

Never had each felt such a need of the other's perceptiveness.
— from The Sailor by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

Directly opposite the nursery, on that part of the side street which sloped, were ten narrow houses, each four stories high, each with brown-stone fronts and brown-stone steps, each topped by a large chimney and a small chimney.
— from The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates

Charlotte, however, as is often the case in a household, is very differently disposed: a cloud is on her face, which is pale and anxious; but notwithstanding her evident fatigue, she dips her pen in the inkstand.
— from Jack 1877 by Alphonse Daudet

Others affirm, they are Pleasant to look to, but not Healthy, especially for Strangers, who are all subject to the Disease call’d Berber , which is common in that Country.
— from The Discovery and Conquest of the Molucco and Philippine Islands. Containing their History, Ancient and Modern, Natural and Political: Their Description, Product, Religion, Government, Laws, Languages, Customs, Manners, Habits, Shape, and Inclinations of the Natives. With an Account of many other adjacent Islands, and several remarkable Voyages through the Streights of Magellan, and in other Parts. by Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola

More I did not hear, except for some flying exclamations of “What negligence and carelessness!
— from Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky