His idea of woman's modesty was that she should cast her eyes down when meeting men, drop her veil when walking up the aisle of a church and keep her place at home.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Dum solos credit habendos esse deos, quos ipse colit .
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

She cast her eyes down and made no reply.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Curious, I say, and not sufficiently considered: how everything does co-operate with all; not a leaf rotting on the highway but is indissoluble portion of solar and stellar systems; no thought, word or act of man but has sprung withal out of all men, and works sooner or later, recognizably or irrecognizable, on all men!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

I shall come here every day in my chair and I shall be taken back in it.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I sey not nay, but in conclusioun, I mene wel, by god that sit above:' — And ther-with-al she caste hir eyen doun, 1005 And gan to syke, and seyde, `O Troye toun, Yet bidde
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Thus he spake, honouring her; and she cast her eyes down with a smile divinely sweet; and her soul melted within her, uplifted by his praise, and she gazed upon him face to face; nor did she know what word to utter first, but was eager to pour out everything at once.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

She had scarcely recovered her composure when she cast her eyes down and sighed deeply.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I sat looking at her as she cast her eyes down on her work; I sat seeming still to listen to her; and Steerforth, in spite of all my attachment to him, darkened in that tone.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"I shall come here every day whilst I am in town," she declared, "and even then I am sure I shall always find something fresh to admire!
— from Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands

she cried, her eyes dancing with mischief.
— from The Sea Fairies by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

When Crispin disguises himself in her clothes, he exclaims,— "L'addresse et l'artifice ont passé dans mon cœur; Qu'on a sous cet habit et d'esprit et de ruse— Rien n'est si trompeur qu'animal porte-jupe."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

After eating his supper, Frank followed their example; and, being completely exhausted, having scarcely closed his eyes during the preceding night, he slept soundly until morning.
— from Frank on the Prairie by Harry Castlemon

“The best speech Chisholm has ever delivered,” declared one of Her Majesty’s Ministers, a grey-haired old gentleman in black broadcloth, to his colleague, the Home Secretary, at his side.
— from The Under-Secretary by William Le Queux

The Duke paid no attention to this remark; he enjoyed the embarrassment which was visibly manifest in the chaste features of the innocent girl, who sighed softly, and, playing with the ends of the coloured ribands of her plaited hair, sent an involuntary look to Albert, which seemed to claim his kind offices in her present perplexity, and then suddenly cast her eyes down to the ground.
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

See Collier, H. E. D. P. iii. 289, and Halliwell's DICTIONARY OF OLD PLAYS, art.
— from Lucasta by Richard Lovelace

“What, what is this?” cried Miriam, as she cast her eye down the ponderous instrument.
— from Patroon van Volkenberg A tale of old Manhattan in the year sixteen hundred & ninety-nine by Henry Thew Stephenson