When the regimental band began playing between the acts, she closed her eyes, exhausted.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Nay, a stammering carpenter had eloquence enough to persuade my master that I fired a pistol loaded with small shot into his window; though my landlady and the whole family bore witness that I was abed fast asleep at the time when this outrage was committed, I was once flogged for having narrowly escaped drowning, by the sinking of a ferry boat in which I was passenger.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

From chloride of sodium, which is nothing else than sea salt, Cyrus Harding easily extracted the soda and chlorine.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

He looks at it at arm's length, brings it close to him, holds it in his right hand, holds it in his left hand, reads it with his head on this side, with his head on that side, contracts his eyebrows, elevates them, still cannot satisfy himself.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

She closed her eyes, exhausted, and suddenly fell asleep for an instant.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The narrative continues: … slowly, calmly, his eyes examined every inch of her.
— from The Eyes Have It by Philip K. Dick

She could have eaten eagerly still, but she had no ravenous images of food.
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

I have carefully examined the house without finding anything to suggest that such squalor could have ever existed there.
— from The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home

In no single case has England exacted retribution for the murder of her servants and citizens; but nobody can read through the long list of these dastardly slaughters without feeling that they will not go unavenged.
— from The Last Boer War by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

She came home every evening at about six, and the little wretch invariably had a hot meal with her tea.
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

In the same connection he evidently endeavors to create the impression that the religious privileges of the free colored people are equal to those of the whites.
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

With one quick glance from the center of the whirlpool to the pillars piercing the sky, Sam closed his eyes expecting the next instant would be the last.
— from Lost in the Cañon The Story of Sam Willett's Adventures on the Great Colorado of the West by A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) Calhoun

But if Doctor Koch should catch him eavesdropping, embarrassment fatal to his plans might follow; besides, he had a feeling that eyes he could not see—perhaps the unwinking eyes of the Numidian, avid for an excuse to put into practise his dexterity with the Bedouin dagger—were on him.
— from Inside the Lines by Robert Welles Ritchie

She could have explained every circumstance in court, ‘but the wind was so loud and the throng so great, that she could not hear the evidence against her .’
— from Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams