His sharp red eyes darted hither and thither almost apprehensively.
— from The Lamp in the Desert by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

Romantic engravings displayed here and there in the text grand viziers, sultanas, black tunics, bazaars, and caravans.
— from The Red Lily — Volume 03 by Anatole France

The ideal and the real, elsewhere divided, have always tended to be united in our land.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Major Lumley, 97th Regiment, especially distinguished himself at the assault on the Redan, 8th September.
— from Our Soldiers: Gallant Deeds of the British Army during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

From this date, February 3rd, the sun rose each day higher above the horizon, the nights were, however, still very long, and, as is often the case in February, the cold increased, the thermometer marking only 1º Fahrenheit, the lowest temperature experienced throughout this extraordinary winter.
— from The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude by Jules Verne

Books of social philosophy, novels with a thesis, poetry of radical emotion, documented history, and the criticism of politics or economic theory have had such expert reviewing as America has never before provided in such quantity.
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby

rebuking evil doings, he acquired the name of “Scolding Dunham.”
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

All the time, while she listened, her restless eyes darted here and there.
— from A Sister of the Red Cross: A Tale of the South African War by L. T. Meade