She looked round to see how the Professor liked it, and found him looking at her with the grimmest expression she had ever seen him wear.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

He stood there in dismay, his arms swinging, his eyes staring, his mouth agape.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

D’Artagnan has turned aside from Buckingham, whom she hates as she hates everyone she has loved, the tempest with which Richelieu threatened him in the person of the queen.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

" Radish, looking thin, pale, and rather terrible, shut his eyes, shook his head, and muttered in a philosophic tone: "The grub eats grass, rust eats iron, lies devour the soul.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Willoughby Smith had excellent sight,” he added.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Thomas saw all the impropriety of such a scheme among such a party, and at such a time, as strongly as his son had ever supposed he must; he felt it too much, indeed, for many words; and having shaken hands with Edmund, meant to try to lose the disagreeable impression, and forget how much he had been forgotten himself as soon as he could, after the house had been cleared of every object enforcing the remembrance, and restored to its proper state.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

He that seeketh her early, shall have no great travel: for he shall find her sitting at his doors.
— from The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety by John Hamilton Moore

Instead of his ascending where she had come down, as she had expected, she heard him grope his way toward the door she had seen in the wall.
— from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

He appeared to rise at least a foot more in stature, his eyes sparkled, his great nose turned red, his nostrils dilated, and his mouth was more than half open, to give vent to the ponderous breathing from his chest.
— from Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat

That is to say, he easily steeled himself against it.
— from Denry the Audacious by Arnold Bennett

He laid her on the bed, worn frail by the strife she had endured; she had no strength to open her eyes, but moved her lips to thank him for his pains.
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett

All her life hitherto she had enjoyed splendid health; she was unacquainted with headaches; neuralgia, rheumatism, gout, the supposed banes of the present day, never troubled her.
— from The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by L. T. Meade

16 Scandinavian origin of the Violin, alleged 13 Scheinlein, Johann Michael 270 Scheinlein, Mathias F. 270 Schell, Sebastian 270 Schlick 270 Schmidt 270 Schnoeck, Egidius 253 Schonfelder, Johann A. 270 Schonger, Georg 270 Schonger, Franz 270 Schorn, Johann, an excellent maker 271 Schorn, Johann Paul 271 Schott, Martin, Lute-maker 271 Schuler, Dr. Johann, his novel, "Jacob Stainer" 276 Schwartz 271 Schweitzer 271 Scott, Sir Walter, on Music and Fiddles 446 Scroll, A Wandering 455 Sellas, Matteo, Lute-maker 172 Serafino, Santo (Sanctus Seraphin), famed for exquisite finish; German and Italian models; excellent varnish and handsome wood, but style inferior, and lacking originality 172 Shaw, Dr., his "Travels in the East" 7 Shaw 328 Silvestre, Hippolyte 254 Silvestre, Hippolyte Chrétien 254 Silvestre, Pierre, copyist of Stradivari, of high order and exquisite finish; fellow worker with Lupot and Gand 253 Simon 254 Simonin 254 Simpson 328 Simpson, Dr. Christopher, Anecdote of 423 Sivori, Camillo, his high artistic career 392 "Skit," A musical 425 "Slab-back" and "Whole-back," The 32 Smith, Henry 328 Smith, Thomas 328 Smith, William 328 Sneider, Josefo; many of Girolamo Amati's instruments attributed to this maker 174 Socchi, Vincenzo 174 Socquet, Louis 254 "Sonata del Diavolo," Tartini's 427 Sonatas, Earliest appearance of 379 Sorsana 174 Sound-bar, oblique position of, 35 ; its purpose and character 36 Sound-holes, crescent-shaped, 22 ; of Gasparo and Amati, 80 ; shape and importance of 40 Sound-post, its purpose and service, 36 ; its position, 37 ; methods of fixing 38 Spohr, Louis, Violinist and composer; his Quartettes and Duets 408 Spohr and his Guarneri 478 Spohr and the Collector 480 "Sports and Pastimes," Strutt's 16 Stadelmann, Daniel 271 Stadelmann, Johann Joseph 271 Stainer, Andreas 280 Stainer, Jacob, the greatest of German artists; his popularity; Sir John Hawkins' estimate of his work; originality and peculiarity of his model; variation in style; his "Elector Stainers;" his personal history, by Herr S. Ruf and Counsellor Von Sardagna; Dr. Johann Schuler's novel, "Jacob Stainer;" his marriage; his imprisonment for heresy; his poverty and sad death; his numerous followers and libellists 271-280 Stainer, Markus 280 Statlee 174 Staugtinger, Mathias 280 Steininger, Franz 281 Steininger, Jacob 281 Sterne, Laurence, on Hobby-horses 331 Stolen "Strad," A 449 Storioni, Lorenzo, follower of Guarneri del Gesù; his freak as to placing the sound-holes; his Violins roughly finished, but valued for acoustical properties 174 Stoss 281 Stoss, Martin 281 Stradivari, Antonio, date of birth, 178 ; Paolo Lombardini's pamphlet on his life, 185 ; his marriage, and pedigree of his family, 178-179 ; affinity of his work with that of his master, Niccolò Amati, 182 ; second epoch, and change of style, 189-190 ; possessor of the tools and models of N. Amati, 184 ; his house at Cremona, 187 ; extracts from Desiderio Arisi, 185 ; Vincenzo Lancetti on the purchase of Stradivari's models and tools by Count Cozio di Salabue; the letters of Paolo and Antonio Stradivari, junior, in reference thereto, 188 ; splendid character of his varnish, 198 ; Cardinal Orsini's and the Duke of Modena's patronage, 190-191 ; the "Long Strad," 195 ; his work for the Spanish Court and for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, 193 ; letter of Marquis Ariberti, 193 ; a "Concerto of Violins," 194 ; the "golden period," 197 ; the "Betts Strad," 466 ; variations in qualities of wood, 200 ; the "Dolphin Strad," 200 ; Prince Eugene and war in Cremona, 203 ; visit of Philip V. of Spain to Italy, and entry into Cremona, 204 ; Stradivari's instruments for presentation to Philip 204 , and to the Archduke Charles of Austria, 206 ; letter of Lorenzo Giustiniani to Stradivari, 206 ; characteristics of the instruments of his later period, 209-211 ; place of his burial, 212-214 ; indifference of Stradivari's own townsmen as to his remains, 215 ; further notice of Count Cozio di Salabue relative to the Stradivari reliques 359 Stradivari, Francesco, son and successor of Antonio; excellent character of work, age, and date of death 217 Stradivari, Omobono, successor to the business of his father Antonio 218 Stradivari, Paolo, cloth merchant; his correspondence with Count Cozio di Salabue relative to the Stradivari reliques 219 , 360-364 Straube 281 Strauss, Joseph 281 Stregner, Magno, Lute-maker 174 Strings, Italian and other, causes of variation in the quality of; how to choose them; material used in their manufacture; experiments on the tension of 43-56 Sursano, Spirito 219 T Tanegia, Carlo Antonio 219 Taningard, Giorgio 219 Tarisio, Luigi, and his collection of Violins; his singular career and character, and painful end 344-356 Tarr, W. 328 Tartini, Giuseppe; his musical compositions; high opinion of Dr. Burney on 388 Tartini, Signor, on the treatment of the Violin 501 Taylor, meritorious work 329 Tecchler 219 Tedesco 220 Tension and pressure of Violin Strings 54 Testore, Carlo Antonio, excellent work 220 Testore, Carlo Giuseppe 220 Testore, Giovanni 220 Testore, Paolo Antonio 220 Teutonic origin of the Violin 17 Thackeray on Orchestral Music 471 Theress, Charles 254 Thibout, Jacques Pierre, a well-known dealer, and excellent workman; his relations with Luigi Tarisio 254 Thomassin 254 Thompson 329 Thorowgood, Henry 329 Three-stringed Violins 25 Tieffenbrucker, Leonardo 220 Tieffenbrucker 281 Tielke, Joachim, Lute and Guitar-maker; magnificent ornamentation of his work 281 Tielke, Joachim, Viol and Violin-maker, examples in the Kensington collection 282 Tilley, Thomas 329 Tobin 329 Tobin, Richard 329 Todini, Michele, his musical clock-work, and new mode of stringing the Violono 220 Tononi, Carlo Antonio 221 Tononi, Carlo, excellent work and varnish 221 Tononi, Felice 222 Tononi, Giovanni, high-class work 222 Tononi, Guido 222 Traditional History of Cremonese makers (see Ceruti, Enrico) 108 Trapani, Raffaele 222 Trinity in Unity, Musical illustration of 423 Troubadours and Trouvères 10 Tywersus 254 U Urquhart, Thomas, high-class work and excellent varnish 329 V Vaillant, François 254 Valentine William 329 Valenzano, G. M. 222 "Varnish, Dodd's" 302 Varnish, Italian, that of the several Schools compared 70 Venetian Catlins 46 Veracini, Solo Violinist, 208 , 379 ; J. B. Volumier, and Stradivari 207 Veronese, Paolo, his "Marriage at Cana" 375 Véron, Pierre 255 Vetrini, Battista 222 Vibrecht, Gysbert 255 Vieuxtemps, Henri, his Concertos 396 Vimercati, Paolo 222 Viola da Braccia, The 13 Viola di Bordone, The 270 Violin, construction of the, 27 ; three-stringed, 25 ; four-stringed, 26 ; acoustical properties of the 30 Violin, Tartini on the art of Playing 501 Violins, from a medical point of view 424 Violin, The, and its Votaries 331 Violinist, An indefatigable 495 Violono, or Bass-Viol, of Gasparo da
— from The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart

The pretty colour of the first, the affected drawing of the second, had entirely satisfied his aesthetic sensibilities.
— from Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Not that there was any reason why he might, could, would, or should have ever seen her look like this, or that he had ever hoped for himself to see her look like this; but still—when had he ever known her do it!
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

But the very next morning, before 10 o'clock, there came a knock upon the Departmental door and he walked into her office, looking more matter-of-fact and businesslike than she had ever seen him.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison