And now one never sees him, except at the House.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

L. He was tall, of a pale complexion, ill-shaped, his neck and legs very slender, his eyes and temples hollow, his brows broad and knit, his hair thin, and the crown of the head bald.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

It resembles the fine phrases of a suitor who no longer loves; his words may be the same, his expressions as tender, his language as impassioned, but love is lacking and those words which scintillate as the sun upon my windows, fail to warm the heart of the poor woman who had dreamt of love eternal.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

And if you calculate the time for the above dialogue to take place—the time for Briggs and Firkin to fly to the drawing-room—the time for Miss Crawley to be astonished, and to drop her volume of Pigault le Brun—and the time for her to come downstairs—you will see how exactly accurate this history is, and how Miss Crawley must have appeared at the very instant when Rebecca had assumed the attitude of humility.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

She was like a man who shuts his eyes and throws himself from the roof.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sir Roderick in suspense he eyed, And to his look the Chief replied: 'Fear naught—nay, that I need not say But—doubt not aught from mine array.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

He was a little man, and his breastplate was made of linen, but in use of the spear he excelled all the Hellenes and the Achaeans.
— from The Iliad by Homer

He remained at Sorrento till he was nine, and then he was boarded with a worthy man, who superintended his education and taught him music.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Oh what a war of looks was then between them, Her eyes petitioners to his eyes suing, 356 His eyes saw her eyes, as they had not seen them, Her eyes woo’d still, his eyes disdain’d the wooing: And all this dumb play had his acts made plain With tears, which, chorus-like, her eyes did rain.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He pursued her, dashing in and out and round the house and amongst the sheds, would drive her into some corner, where she would fall on her knees stopping her ears, and then he would stand at a distance and declaim filthy denunciations at her back for half an hour at a stretch.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

This is generally because there was, in fact, no central effect for them to seize, the performer having scattered his efforts, as tho he were using a shot-gun instead of hitting the bull's-eye with a single rifle-shot.
— from A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews

She breathlessly awaited the operation, which was one of some tediousness, watching him one moment, averting her face the next; and when it was done she shut her eyes at the hideous spectacle that was revealed.
— from A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy

In this letter the king touched upon the chief points in the history of the two countries, showing that a superiority had existed, and that homage had been paid from kings of Scotland to kings of England for centuries past, and he ended thus: “As, from the above‐named consideration, it is plain and notorious that the said kingdom of Scotland belongs to us in full right, and as we have never done anything which could in any way derogate from our rights over the same, we humbly entreat your holiness that you, weighing the arguments above stated, will deign to decide upon them according to the promptings of your own mind, in no way giving credit to the contrary suggestions of those who are jealous of us in this respect, but preserving and approving of our state and our royal rights, if it so please your paternal affection.”
— from The Life and Reign of Edward I. by Robert Benton Seeley

Their story as a story halted, even as the heartbeats of mankind halted, while it waited for the result of the Marne.
— from The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer

She has been twice shipwrecked within three weeks; she has experienced all the horrors of a mutiny; 263 she has lost her father under circumstances which would have killed many girls with grief; she has been held in terror of her life, and yet never once has her noble courage flagged, her splendid spirit failed her."
— from The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 3 of 3 An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas by William Clark Russell

She always plays as impetuously as she does everything else, and then he stops his ears and tells her she makes too much " Spectakel " (his favorite expression).
— from Music-Study in Germany, from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay

This day he had smitten his enemies and they had withered before his power.
— from Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

Sir Roderick in suspense he eyed, And to his look the Chief replied, "Fear nought—nay, that I need not say—
— from Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V by Anonymous

But in another way she thought more of his words than even she had ever admitted to herself.
— from Helena Brett's Career by Desmond Coke