They, persuaded that it was grief at finding himself vanquished, and the object of his heart, the liberation and disenchantment of Dulcinea, unattained, that kept him in this state, strove by all the means in their power to cheer him up; the bachelor bidding him take heart and get up to begin his pastoral life, for which he himself, he said, had already composed an eclogue that would take the shine out of all Sannazaro had ever written, and had bought with his own money two famous dogs to guard the flock, one called Barcino and the other Butron, which a herdsman of Quintanar had sold him.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But there was everything, for our apprehension, in the lucky fact that no discomfortable legend, no perturbation of scullions, had ever, within anyone’s memory attached to the kind old place.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

nga nag-amara ug pinútì, He got out of there when he saw his enemy waving a sword.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Jim was amazed to see him emerge with a dropping jaw, and staring, stupidly frightened eyes.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Alypius now, who had not seen him enter, was aware of his going, and saw with what speed he made away.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Nicholas looked upon the sleepers; at first, with the air of one who gazes upon a scene which, though familiar to him, has lost none of its sorrowful effect in consequence; and, afterwards, with a more intense and searching scrutiny, as a man would who missed something his eye was accustomed to meet, and had expected to rest upon.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Hans shut his eyes with an air of indifference, and my uncle looked on without clearly understanding.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

110 Had it indeed been possible to realize this dream of fancy, such princes as Trajan and the Antonines would surely have embraced with ardor the glorious opportunity of conferring so signal an obligation on mankind.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Yes, I do want a notary,” motioned the old man, shutting his eyes with a look of defiance, which seemed to say, “and I should like to see the person who dares to refuse my request.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

See his evil works and then look at Me; at Me, your Creator, and at the good deeds I do you.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Julio was still on deck, and since his eyesight was apparently as sound as ever, despite his rough treatment at the hands of the Yankee, it would be a wretched mistake to again come under his withering observation, for on this occasion no friendly balcony might offer him an asylum from the outstretched hands of the bolero dancer's excited allies.
— from Miss Fairfax of Virginia: A Romance of Love and Adventure Under the Palmettos by St. George Rathborne

It is singular how easily we are deceived, when the mind commences by taking a wrong direction.
— from The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper

Things supernatural have every where and every when exercised mortal curiosity.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

“I have it—” Hogarth was shivering, his eyes wide, and in his memory a strange singsong crooning of t'hillim , heard ages before in some other world over a cradle.
— from The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

It was a still, hot evening when a somewhat silent company of bronze-faced men assembled in the big living room of Cedar Range.
— from The Cattle-Baron's Daughter by Harold Bindloss

He spent his evenings when at Hawarden in a cosy corner of the library reading.
— from The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England by Richard B. (Richard Briscoe) Cook

Before I could think of what comes after, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume," he wrinkled his nose, squinted his eyes, whirled and darted off for the timber.
— from The Test Colony by Winston K. Marks

The various monasteries under the Rule of St. Pachomius existed as separate houses, each with a head or præpositus and other officials of its own, and organised apparently on the basis of the trades followed by the inmates.
— from English Monastic Life by Francis Aidan Gasquet

He knew that in the sunlight her eyes were as mistily blue as early meadow violets, but here they looked dark and unfathomably tender.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery