In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before it its great congener.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

she asked, casting her eyes down.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

When the first tumults of emotion had subsided Angelica, casting her eyes downward, beheld the precious ring upon her finger, whose virtues she was well acquainted with, for it was the very ring which the Saracen Brunello had robbed her of.
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

Little Miss Blanchet laughed and then grew sad, and cast her eyes down.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

If she looked at Antony, with a sweet, long gaze, and then sighed, and cast her eyes down, Antony was moved to the depths of his soul, and he would frankly tell her so; which at that stage of proceedings was very inconvenient.
— from Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia E. Barr

Helen drew a quick sigh, and closing her eyes, dropped against the arras.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

"I know it," she answered, sighing, and cast her eyes down to the ground again, with the blood mounting into her cheek; "yet, why not in the same ship?--I have kinsfolk both in Liege and in Peronne--you would not see wrong done to me?"
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Secondly, a Christian has everything done in him by God, and yet he is to work.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

Various learned societies and commissions have edited documents which would be nearly unintelligible without a wide comparison and complete elucidation.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various