The man revived and caressed his wife with his eyes, which was all he could do.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

He walked slowly on; and shunning the roadside like a guilty man, turned into a meadow he well remembered; and covering his face with his hands, threw himself upon the grass.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

He leant down upon a rail, and covered his face with his hands.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

On her way through the hall, in search of Annette, she met Montoni, whom she told what had happened, and conjured to return and comfort her aunt; but he turned silently away, with a look of indifference, and went out upon the ramparts.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Note 126 ( return ) [ A curious history of the worship of St. George, from the sixth century,
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He took Phatik up roughly, and carried him, kicking and struggling in impotent rage.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

The charity of St. Stephen, the apostle of his kingdom, relieved and conducted his itinerant brethren; and from Belgrade to Antioch, they traversed fifteen hundred miles of a Christian empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Antonia received him with a simple reverence, and continued her work: Her cheeks were suffused with crimson, and She strove to conceal her emotion by leaning over her embroidery frame.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Other fragments of regiments and companies had also fallen into my division, and acted with it during the remainder of the battle.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

As the two gentlemen stood before her she rose, and caught her breath, pressing one little palm over her heart, while the other grasped the balustrade.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

He managed to catch one arm around the banister rail and check his descent, but the bag of kittens went all the way.
— from Four Little Blossoms at Oak Hill School by Mabel C. Hawley

[281] For we have seen that wherever the powers of nature reached a certain height, the national civilization was irregularly developed, and the advance of the civilization stopped.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Every word she spoke fell with the right ring and chimed, he seemed to have known her for years—as indeed he had done, through the medium of her letters.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne

Jem nodded to him to go on, just as a faint shout arose from somewhere above; and this seemed to nerve him to proceed over the slippery stones to where Ngati was passing round a corner, holding tightly by the rock, which he seemed to embrace.
— from The Adventures of Don Lavington: Nolens Volens by George Manville Fenn

She shuddered in the grip of mortal renunciation, and called her state holy, when adoration and desire were fused in a burning beatitude at the approach of Brodrick.
— from The Creators: A Comedy by May Sinclair

At the time of St. Columba's ministry, England, which during the lifetime of St. Patrick had been Roman and Christian, had now under the iron flail of its Saxon conquerors lapsed back into Paganism.
— from The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless

To these two books Jean de Meun has been obliged for some of the severest strokes in his [part of the] Roman de la Rose ; and Chaucer has transfused the quintessence of all the three works, upon the subject of Matrimony, into his Wife of Bathes Prologue and Merchant's Tale .'
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

But as, on inquiry, he learned that unless he became a Roman Catholic he would be refused a commission, he changed his mind and resolved to remain where he was.
— from The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang

Then they heard several sounding slaps, and they heard Niels curse back at the rector and call him evil names.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various