The hypothesis was reviewed in negatives: she had barely a sense of softness, just a single little heave of the bosom, quivering upward and leadenly sinking, when she glanced at a married Diana heartily mated.
— from Diana of the Crossways — Complete by George Meredith

Fanny Burney describes her as having been "very handsome, but [164] now I think getting quite ugly, at least she has the sort of face I like not."
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

Cecil looked down, coloured, put his hands in his pockets and took them out again, twisted his eyes in a vain attempt to see the whole extent of the ink spot on his collar, and finally, standing quite upright, and looking straight before him, said in a very modest and yet manly way, 'I am glad you know that I was not really idle, father; but I didn't work so hard as I ought the last week, and I was stuck-up and made too sure of success.
— from Holiday Tales by Florence Wilford

[135] "She is quite unchanged, at least she was when I last saw her, some years ago, and I think that she can never change," said Victor, enthusiastically.
— from Stories and Sketches by our best authors by Various

they have laid your poor head that bore this white hair— they have laid it upon the scaffold, and the axe, the dreadful axe— " The queen uttered a loud shriek of horror, sprang up, and raised both her hands in conjuration to Heaven, while a curse just trembled on her lips.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The shock and alarm were such that like a fish taken from the water she writhed on the ground, trembled and shook as if her whole being quaked, until at last she took leave of her children and she died.
— from Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Neither did I quite understand a little story which Lorna told me, how that in the night awaking, she had heard, or seemed to hear, a sound of feeling in her room; as if there had been some one groping carefully among the things within her drawers or wardrobe-closet.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

It ought to be as much the teacher's business to see that pupils do not suffer in health as to see that lessons (often quite useless) are learned ( see articles on Brow, Weary , and Eyes, Failing Sight ).
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

And so we talked on, discussing this singular and seldom met with, but still existing fact, of single insane freaks in the otherwise perfectly sane, when the gentle Quakeress, uttering a little shocked exclamation and suddenly lowering her paper, turned toward us.
— from Against Odds: A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch