[scallops, muscular part of shellfish] ELIMINATE THE HARD STRINGS; ADD BOILED SPELT AND CHOPPED HARD EGGS, STOCK AND PEPPER.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Forth on his terrace he came, and sat with the chief in talk; His lips were blackened with fever, his cheeks were whiter than chalk; Fever clutched at his hands, fever nodded his head, But, quiet and steady and cruel, his eyes shone ruby-red.
— from Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson

At present her thoughts were far from her home and her immediate surroundings; and, closing her eyes, she sang more vivaciously than ever: “‘He’s a gay and gallant rover, And I ’spect he’s false to me.’”
— from Her Sailor: A Love Story by Marshall Saunders

Esther could not bear to pain him by again reminding him that their means would not allow it; and as her father lay back upon the sofa and closed his eyes, she went away into the other room and sat down at the corner of that fire, where the partition wall screened her from view.
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

Lorraine shivered and covered her eyes swiftly with one hand.
— from The Quirt by B. M. Bower

If some strong thought bears upward on phantasmal wing a man of learning or a poet, isolates him from the external circumstances which environ him here below, and leads him forward through illimitable regions where vast arrays of facts become abstractions, where the greatest works of Nature are but images, then woe betide him if a sudden noise strikes sharply on his senses and calls his errant soul back to its prison-house of flesh and bones.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

" Lorraine shivered and covered her eyes swiftly with one hand.
— from Sawtooth Ranch by B. M. Bower

One of the impressions that this seeming sad dream made upon her was, that swarms of insects had followed and enveloped her on all sides, stinging and causing her excruciating suffering, which had extended over a series of years of more than lifelong duration.
— from Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley