“To your Eminence!” murmured Bonacieux, rolling his eyes round in astonishment.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In this empire christian slaves are treated with the greatest cruelty: the rich have exorbitant ransoms fixed upon them; the poor are hard worked, and half starved sometimes murdered by the emperor, or their masters, for mere amusement.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

I was assisted by Andrey Ivanov, a house painter, or, as he called himself, a contractor for all kinds of house decorations, a tall, very thin, pale man of fifty, with a hollow chest, with sunken temples, with blue rings round his eyes, rather terrible to look at in fact.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Diogenes, of Babylonia, pupil and successor of Chrysippus; best known for his part in the famous embassy with Carneades and Critolaus from Athens to Rome (156) where, on motion of Cato, they were not permitted to remain; his ethics rather loose, iii , 51-55 , 91 .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old Tiptoff would have sworn black was white if the great Earl had bidden him; and he made his son give up his commission in the Guards, in imitation of my Lord Pitt, who resigned his ensigncy rather than fight against what he called his American brethren.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

This man risked his empire rather than permit the slave-trade in the humblest village of his dominions.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Peter's spirit undoubtedly hovered over these plans, but the marble sarcophagus in the church of St. Peter and St. Paul had long since received his earthly remains, and without his personal energy the Senate's plans were but the projects of a dazzled fancy.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

How restful, how extraordinarily restful to have found some one who had never heard of any of her lot, or at least had not yet connected her with them.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

He rolled his eyes round heavily, but he was too far gone to express surprise.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Be so good then as declare publicly, will you,’ said Mr. Creakle, putting his head on one side, and rolling his eyes round the school, ‘whether it ever came to my knowledge until this moment?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Addington, Brockville (town), Cornwall (town), Dundas, Frontenac, Glengarry, Grenville, S. R., Hastings, N. R., Hastings, E. R., Hastings, W. R., Kingston (city), Lanark, N. R., Lanark, S. R., Leeds, S. R., Leeds & Grenville, N. R., Lennox, Northumberland, N. R., Northumberland, W. R., Peterboro’, E. R., Peterboro’, W. R., Prescott, Prince Edward, Stormont. TORONTO DIVISION.—( Province of Ontario .)
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

The Pelican was now the only one of his vessels left, as all the rest had either returned home or been lost.
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

But at this moment the faint tick-tick of the cuckoo clock in the next room, reaching her ear, reminded her of the object of this midnight expedition of hers.
— from The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth

In this regiment, Butler's Rangers, and the Eighty-Fourth, or Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment also then raised, the Highland gentlemen who had, in 1773, emigrated to Tryon county, received commissions, as well as those who had previously had joined the ranks.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

In the years since 1900, however, the region has experienced radical changes.
— from Mammals of Mount Rainier National Park by Russell K. Grater

But twelve battalions had been sent to him from France to recruit his exhausted regiments, and nothing but the employment of the highest military skill could now save him from destruction.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

The old man raised his eyes rather abstractedly from the paper he was reading, and then cordially shook hands with Kenyon.
— from A Woman Intervenes by Robert Barr

If not all masters, like Greek and Roman citizens, they all belong to the master race, have exclusive rights and privileges of citizenship, and an interest not to see this right of citizenship extended, disturbed, and rendered worthless and contemptible.
— from Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh