There was in her manner or face neither shame nor boldness, and when she took her seat in full view of half the spectators, her eyes were downcast.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

This contention I shall hereafter examine with due care.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

She must watch the general arrangements, and see how everything was done.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

They had young men of the kind whom she, since her experience with Drouet, felt above, who took them about.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Michonneau, a thin, shriveled, dead-alive, mummy-like figure, crouching by the stove; her eyes were downcast, as if she feared that the green eye-shade could not shut out the expression of those faces from her.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

In common with all Helium he worshiped his daughter, nor could he think of what she had escaped without deep emotion.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“Ah!” said Hatton, eagerly, “what, do you come from him?”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

But their riches were confiscated, their arms became more effectual in the hands of the Mussulmans; and a wretched colony of seven hundred exiles was driven, with their wives and children, to implore a refuge on the confines of Syria.
— 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

The police officer, on being summoned, drew near, and again touching his hat stated his errand with due formality and explained that he had no wish to create any unpleasantness in a public place, and that if Mr. Usher would walk quietly by his side to the cab rank, they could drive away unnoticed.
— from The White Dove by William John Locke

As he did so his eyes were drawn to a letter from Herbert French lying on the table.
— from Marriage à la mode by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

He ordered a quantity of linen cloth to be stretched in front of the breach, painted in imitation of stone and indented with battlements, so as at a distance to resemble the other parts of the walls: behind this screen he employed workmen day and night in repairing the fracture.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving

An electric fan overhead whirred incessantly, and the bright, flashing blades smote his eyes with diabolical precision.
— from The Honorable Percival by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

His thick, tousled hair showed a slight tinge of red in the sun; his eyes were deep-set and of a fine, clear grey; his mouth a trifle large, but firm; his chin square, and full of character.
— from Donalblane of Darien by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

Now all yeasaid this gladly; and the Green Knight said: It were not so ill done that we should see more of our sister here ere we depart, and hear more of her tale; for meseemeth she began it erewhile but half-way.
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

While her heart sprang forward to meet him, she eagerly threw open a door next the staircase, and entered with a hurried and tremulous step; but suddenly her eyes were dazzled and bewildered by the sight which met her agitated glance, while for a moment she became rooted to the floor, like one who had been stunned by a sudden blow.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair