The poor fellow looked up at me with manhood and despair both in his eye.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Mon activité actuelle est typique de cette nouvelle situation: d'une part dégager des chemins d'accès rapides à l'information et mettre en place des moyens de communication efficaces, d'autre part former les utilisateurs à ces nouveaux outils.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Before proceeding further, let us give the chemical composition of the seeds in order that their uses may be the better understood.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Poetic fire lights up his eye, He struggles 'gainst his lot.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

‘Oh, is there ever night or day, when I don’t think of it!’ cried Emily; and now I could just see her, on her knees, with her head thrown back, her pale face looking upward, her hands wildly clasped and held out, and her hair streaming about her.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The man of consequence and fashion shall richly repay a deed of kindness with a nod and a smile, or a hearty shake of the hand; while a poor fellow labours under a sense of gratitude, which, like copper coin, though it loads the bearer, is yet of small account in the currency and commerce of the world.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

It might mean a man physically formidable living under a tropic sun in an Oriental society, and soaking himself without sense or guidance in an Oriental Book.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Advocates, young counsellors, judges had greeted him at sight of his large, thin, pale face lighted up by two sparkling deep-set eyes, bowing low in token of respect.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I suppose,” he added, “ that is scripture, as much as ’Cursed be Canaan.’” “Wal, it seems quite as plain a text, stranger,” said John the drover, “to poor fellows like us, now;” and John smoked on like a volcano.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

She is happy, at peace, and all she longs for is not to be prevented from lying undisturbed, dozing and dreaming of her little girl.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The gradual extension of the marginal principle from land used in agriculture to every conceivable economic agent is the most important development of the last century of economic theory.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

He still seemed to see the tall, rugged form and plain face, lit up with something rarer than beauty by his eloquent pleading for four millions of enslaved human beings.
— from Brother Against Brother; or, The Tompkins Mystery. A Story of the Great American Rebellion. by John R. (John Roy) Musick

Just hitched her hands round my neck and fell asleep in my arms going back, with her putty face looking up at the stars same as an angel’s—soft and woolly to your lips like milk straight from the cow, and her little body smelling sweet and damp, same as the breath of a calf.
— from Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon by Caine, Hall, Sir

The coasting steamers drawing up to 13 feet enter a muddy creek and discharge their cargo on the banks as best they can, whilst the ocean-going ships lie out in the bay and receive their cargoes of sugar and other produce from lighters, upon each of which pilotage used to be charged for the benefit of an unnecessary number of pilots, and of the captain of the port, who received a share of the pilotage and strenuously resisted a reform of this abuse.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

The other parts are plains forming long uninterrupted bands covered with forests or gramina, flatter than in Europe, and rising progressively, at the distance of 300 leagues from the coast, between 30 and 170 toises above the level of the sea.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt

Meanwhile, the deck resounded with those comments which are so very irritating to most lovers of scenery; one long-haired æsthete gave vent to a fresh adjective of admiration about once a minute, till Roy and Cecil were forced to flee from him and to take refuge among the sporting fraternity, who occasionally admitted frankly that it was “a fine view,” but who obtruded their personality far less upon their companions.
— from A Hardy Norseman by Edna Lyall

"Right-o!" assented Dennis eagerly, and the car swung into a narrow track between two swelling rises that had not long before been peaceful farm land under cultivation.
— from With Haig on the Somme by D. H. Parry