They will meet no more: while I am by his side, and see him every day.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

With a gloomy mind, Siddhartha went to the pleasure-garden he owned, locked the gate, sat down under a mango-tree, felt death in his heart and horror in his chest, sat and sensed how everything died in him, withered in him, came to an end in him.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

This arrangement seemed wholly satisfactory to all parties, and though Nellie declared she'd never again speak to Jed De Vere, she dried her tears, and retiring to rest, slept quite as soundly as she had ever done in her life.
— from Cousin Maude by Mary Jane Holmes

"I'm glad you feel that way," she answered softly, her eyes dim.
— from A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today by William MacLeod Raine

“Scarcely a shop had escaped destruction.
— from History of the War in Afghanistan, Vol. 1 (of 3) Third Edition by Kaye, John William, Sir

Or perhaps he does see, and shuts his eyes deliberately, as part of the father's role .
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Rumor ran among his people that he still was not dead; grounding on some movement by the ships of that traitorous Sigwald, they fancied Olaf had dived beneath the keels of his enemies, and got away with Sigwald, as Sigwald himself evidently did.
— from Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

Still, as he enlarged his circles, the doctor managed to collect a few fragments of pemmican, about fifteen pounds, and four stone bottles, which had been thrown out upon the snow and so had escaped destruction; they held five or six pints of brandy.
— from The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

A good many of the nautical terms used so freely 132 by the others might have been so much Greek for all Bessie could understand of them, but the race itself had awakened her interest and now held it as scarcely anything she had ever done had been able to do.
— from A Campfire Girl's Happiness by Jane L. Stewart