No one could look at his sparkling eyes and rosy cheeks, hear his merry laughter, watch him skip, jump, and dance along the beach, without saying, "There, at least, is one happy boy," and feeling glad that there was so much capacity for pure enjoyment in the world.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

In a dozen years he had slept more frequently in the open air, upon pebble beds or in trenches in the snow, than upon ordinary bedding, and he exhibited, in his graceful movements, his sparkling eyes and ruddy cheeks, his massive frame and his imperturbable good-nature, a degree of health and vigor that would seem insolent to the average New Yorker.
— from On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph

It was said that these banditti had been released from prison by the Russian generals for the purpose of burning Moscow; and that in fact so grand, so extreme a resolution could have been adopted only by patriotism and executed only by guilt.
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

He was a man of singularly elevated and religious character; he had something of the eye and temper of a statesman, and he had already a high position.
— from The Oxford Movement; Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church

" That was straight enough and Rimrock cast his fifty-cent cigar like a stogie out of the door.
— from Rimrock Jones by Dane Coolidge

He was a man of singularly elevated and religious character; he had something of the eye and temper of a statesman.”
— from Some of Our East Coast Towns by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

I couldn’ no more stay alone—” She paused for a phrase strong enough, and Rose clapped her hands and said, “I have it.
— from Minerva's Manoeuvres: The Cheerful Facts of a "Return to Nature" by Charles Battell Loomis