His quick, shifty eyes searched everywhere for a few seconds, then he turned into the bustle of the traffic in Holborn and walked westward in the direction of Oxford Street.
— from The Place of Dragons: A Mystery by William Le Queux

And then, as Aster’s face grew brighter and more expectant, and his starlike eyes sparkled, Eva felt a sudden dimness gather in her own, and first one large tear and then another rolled down her cheeks, and dropped, as she bent over it, into the waters of the little spring.
— from Eva's Adventures in Shadow-Land by Mary D. (Mary Dummett) Nauman

“Dum mens alma caput cerebrique palatia celsa Occupat, et famulos sublimis dirigit artus, Et facili imperio nervorum flectit habenas, Illius ad nutum sensus extranea rerum Explorant signa, et studio exemplaria fido Ad dominam adducunt; vel qui statione locantur Vicina, capitisque tuentur limina, ocelli, Naresque, auriculæque, et vis arguta palati; Vel qui per totam currit sparso agmine molem Tactus, ad extremas speculator corporis aras.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown

She eagerly scanned every face, and listened attentively to the names given.
— from A Woman Intervenes by Robert Barr

The rest of Chateaubriand’s narrative, especially as regards the Duke of Berri’s two daughters, corresponds closely enough with the one left by Dupuytren, whose style, somewhat expressive, somewhat emphatic for a man of science, is less copious, and also less magniloquent than that of the marvellous author of Le Gênie du Christianisme and of the Mémoires d’outre-Tombe .
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

Two separate enterprises struggled earnestly for an outcome.
— from The Flyers by George Barr McCutcheon

Entire dependence on photography, as in uncharted regions, is likely to be worked up to slowly, beginning with a stage of rather complete triangulation of natural or artificial points—say three in each constituent picture—then through several stages each successively employing fewer and fewer well determined points.
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives