Note 12 ( return ) [ Ut hactenus etiam tam apud Bajoarior um gentem, quam et Saxmum, sed et alios ejusdem linguae homines..... in eorum carmini bus celebretur.
— 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

“You are speaking, you scoundrel!” said Athos, rising upon his elbow, and transfixing Grimaud with his flaming look.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

By daylight, Jurgis was able to observe that the color on her cheeks was not the old natural one of abounding health; her complexion was in reality a parchment yellow, and there were black rings under her eyes.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

All that day he stood at his lard machine, rocking unsteadily, his eyes closing in spite of him; and he all but lost his place even so, for the foreman booted him twice to waken him.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

In all good faith he returned at night and remonstrated with Roop upon his extravagant decision, and implored him to walk the floor and think for half an hour, and see if he could not figure out some sort of modification of the verdict.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

In this immoral atmosphere the Assistant Commissioner, reflecting upon his enterprise, seemed to l
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

He wards off all inquiries with a wicked “I fix him myself,” and there the matter rests until he either dies or recovers.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Pouvez-vous raconter une histoire en remplaçant la marmotte par un autre animal?
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

See what a woful look was given, As she raised up her eyes to heaven!
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Let us go on: Mrs. Wadman sat in expectation my uncle Toby would do so, to almost the first pulsation of that minute, wherein silence on one side or the other, generally becomes indecent: so edging herself a little more towards him, and raising up her eyes, sub blushing, as she did it—she took up the gauntlet—or the discourse (if you like it better) and communed with my uncle Toby, thus: The cares and disquietudes of the marriage state, quoth Mrs. Wadman, are very great.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Till the appearance on the scene of the child, Innocent, who was by the village folk accepted and believed to be the illegitimate offspring of this ill-starred love, it was tacitly understood that Robin Clifford, his nephew, and the only son of his twin sister, would be the heir to Briar Farm; but when it was seen how much the old man seemed to cling to Innocent, and to rely upon her ever tender care of him, the question arose as to whether there might not be an heiress after all, instead of an heir.
— from Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli

It torments me to see her looking so thin and pale, with those dark rings under her eyes and ready to burst into tears at the slightest provocation; and there is always an expression of pain and humiliation in her face.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

But as the distance between the two ships diminished, and the Investigator ran up her ensign, her nationality was perceived, and Baudin hoisted the tricolour.
— from The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest, Sir

Imagine this landscape animated by a multitude of figures—men, women, children and animals, forming groups that vie with one another in the characteristic and the picturesque; here the innkeeper, round and ruddy, seated in the sun on a low chair, rolling between his hands the tobacco to make a cigarette, with the paper in his mouth; there a huckster of Macarena who sings, rolling up his eyes, to the accompaniment of his guitar, while others beat time by clapping their hands or striking their glasses on the tables; over yonder a group of peasant girls with their gauzy kerchiefs of a million colors, and a whole flower-pot of pinks in their hair, who play the tambourine, and scream, and laugh, and talk at the top of their voices as they push like mad the swing hung between two trees; and the serving-boys of the tavern who come and go with trays of wine-glasses full of manzanilla and with plates of olives; and the group of village people who swarm in the road; two drunken fellows quarrelling with a dandy who is making love, in passing, to a pretty girl; a cock that, proudly spreading out its wings, crows from the thatch of the poultry-yard; a dog that barks at the boys who tease him with sticks and stones; olive-oil boiling and bubbling in the pan where fish is frying; the cracking of the whips of the cab-drivers who arrive in a cloud of dust; a din of songs, castanets, peals of laughter, voices, whistles and guitars, and blows on the tables, and clappings, and {254} crash of breaking pitchers, and thousands of strange, discordant sounds forming a jocund hullabaloo impossible to describe.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

With that he rolled up his eyes and looked sanctimonious.
— from A Cousin's Conspiracy; Or, A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

It may be added, however, that the whirligig of time brought in for Ramsay his revenges upon his enemies.
— from Allan Ramsay by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

He amused himself for hours together by lying on his paillasse tilting his head back, rolling up his eyes, and crying in a high quavering voice—"JAW-neeeeee."
— from The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

There are great rings under his eyes, and furrows in his cheeks that were not there last night.
— from Juggernaut: A Veiled Record by Dolores Marbourg

There were dark rims under his eyes, the lines upon his forehead were deeper.
— from The Mischief-Maker by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

" "Ah!" said Tappy Oko, rolling up his eyes, "You were one of the most magnificent and magnanimous of monarchs.
— from The Royal Book of Oz In which the Scarecrow goes to search for his family tree and discovers that he is the Long Lost Emperor of the Silver Island by Ruth Plumly Thompson