Jim paced athwart, and his footsteps in the vast silence were loud to his own ears, as if echoed by the watchful stars: his eyes, roaming about the line of the horizon, seemed to gaze hungrily into the unattainable, and did not see the shadow of the coming event.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

His father had been a priest and his mother of noble rank, so by birth he belonged to the privileged class; but however carefully I scrutinized his exhausted, respectful, and always perspiring face, his red beard now turning grey, his pitifully torn reefer jacket and his red shirt, I could not discover in him the faintest trace of anything we associate with privilege.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I hear from Mr. Tomes, who has specially studied this family, that many species have enormous ranges, and are found on continents and on far distant islands.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

All doubt of his identity was now at an end; his singular host evidently resided at Rome.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Emily, hastening to her assistance, saw her eyes rolling, and her features convulsed.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Whose office it had been and at what period it had flourished, she never learned; it was enough for her that it contained an echo and a pleasant musty smell and that it was a chamber of disgrace for old pieces of furniture whose infirmities were not always apparent (so that the disgrace seemed unmerited and rendered them victims of injustice) and with which, in the manner of children, she had established relations almost human, certainly dramatic.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Sometimes he even rejected all my quotations, maintaining they were false, and, offering to fetch the book, defied me to find them.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I only know that she calls herself Henriette, that she must be a Frenchwoman, that she is as gentle as a turtledove, that she has evidently received a good education, and that she enjoys good health.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

German philosophers, thanks to Schopenhauer, have earned rather a bad name for their views on women.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Dear friend!” repeated Countess Lidia Ivanovna, never taking her eyes off his, and suddenly her eyebrows rose at the inner corners, describing a triangle on her forehead, her ugly yellow face became still uglier, but Alexey Alexandrovitch felt that she was sorry for him and was preparing to cry.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

France was still her equal rival, and the United States were becoming formidable common carriers, although they had but little legitimate commerce of their own, and none that was under their positive control.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey

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— from Emerson Radio Model 39 Warranty Card by Anonymous

"And if we can't?" Isobel said, her eyebrows raised again.
— from Border, Breed Nor Birth by Mack Reynolds

Jackson, Senator Howell E. , reports agnst.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

That little trunk held all the records of her life the forlorn spinster most cherished;—a few letters that came nearer to love-letters than any others she had ever received; an album, with flowers of the summers of 1840 and 1841 fading between its leaves; two papers containing locks of hair, half of a broken ring, and other insignificant mementos which had their meaning, doubtless, to her,—such a collection as is often priceless to one human heart, and passed by as worthless in the auctioneer's inventory.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

After some haggling Essex received a grant of all Antrim except the lands belonging to the chartered townsmen of Carrickfergus, the town and castle, and 1,000 acres for their support.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

Before the latter could collect his wits, she was whirled away on the arm of the young fellow who had cut in; and Barry backed up against the wall, diverted by the kaleidoscopic scene, his eyes roving about the room in search of possible acquaintances.
— from The Riddle and the Ring; or, Won by Nerve by Gordon MacLaren

She picked out and put together the fine qualities of all the heroes of all the poets she had ever read, and into this finished creature, her fancy transformed her admirer.
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

At nightfall she return'd, white with grief and fatigue; yet I was glad to see her eyes red and swol'n with weeping.
— from The Splendid Spur Being Memoirs of the Adventures of Mr. John Marvel, a Servant of His Late Majesty King Charles I, in the Years 1642-3 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Her face was very careworn and very sad, her eyes red and dim with long weeping.
— from The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow by Annie S. Swan