The nobler natures among the artists counted upon exciting the moral-religious forces in such a public, and the appeal to a moral order of the world operated vicariously, when in reality some powerful artistic spell should have enraptured the true hearer.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"He would come and fetch her in the carriage; they would drive in the park, and she should have everything she wanted."
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I was, at first, under some concern, lest he should recollect my features; but when I found myself introduced to him as a gentleman from London, without being discovered, I blessed the opportunity that brought me into his company; hoping that, in the course of my acquaintance, he would invite me to his house; nor were my hopes frustrated, for, as we spent the evening together, he grew extremely fond of my conversation, asked a great many childish questions about France and foreign parts; and seemed so highly entertained with my answers, that in his cups he shook me often by the hand, pronounced me an honest fellow, and in fine desired our company at dinner next day, at his civil house.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The boys beat the handles of their knives on the table and rolled in their chairs with wide-open mouths as if they would burst; Reuben leaned back with a great pride and softening in his eyes, round which many hard lines had traced themselves of late; Caro's lips were parted and she seemed half enchanted, half bewildered by the other woman's careless merriment.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

Katherine paled as she saw his expression.
— from The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow

Then, as there is no hero without heroic feats, and no heroism without combats and perils, a series of terrible events succeeded each other in her waking dream—battles, shipwrecks, desperate enterprises, and dangers of all kinds, in which the same person was the chief actor, and in all these phantasmagoric adventures she saw herself enacting an inexplicable and indistinct part.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

But behind his cheeks so dirty Red blood springs, a mournful quiv’ring Round his wide mouth plays, and sadly Stare his eyes, so large and handsome.
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

And that sparkling trickling water was certainly the purest and sweetest she had ever tasted.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

he interrupted, as she paused and stood shuddering, her eyes filling with shadows.
— from The Hills of Refuge: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

"These people are so slow," he exclaimed, "they think that a peace like this ought to be meditated upon for three years first."
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose