She pleasantly gratified my longing; instead of raising me, and lifting me up from my own place to attain to it, she was much kinder to me; for she brought it so low, and made it so cheap, that it stooped down to my shoulders, and lower.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Nahitan-aw (nahipatan-aw) siya nákù sa kahibúlung, She looked at me in surprise.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He had been on the tops of mountains whose heads were in the clouds and had looked down on other mountains when the sun rose and touched them with such light as made it seem as if the world were just being born.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

For that matter, though the Oneidas do serve his sacred majesty, who is my sovereign lord and master, I should not have deliberated long about letting off 'killdeer' at the imp myself, had luck thrown him in my way.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

She looked at me in silence for some moments, with her face gradually softening into a smile.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

That, in fact, all I ask is, that she should say two or three sisterly words with sympathy, should not repulse me at first sight; should take me on trust and listen to what I say; should laugh at me if she likes, encourage me, say two words to me, only two words, even though we never meet again afterwards!...
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She looked at me intently, shook her head and again fell into a reverie.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The chief part of retailing is but a handmaid to merchandise, dispersing by piecemeal that which the merchant bringeth in gross; of which trade be mercers, vintners, haberdashers, ironmongers, milliners, and all such as sell wares growing or made beyond the [495] seas; and therefore so long as merchandise itself shall be profitable, and such proportion kept as neither we lose our treasure thereby, nor be cloyed with unnecessary foreign wares, this kind of retailing is to be retained also.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Substances which, like cod-liver oil, serve as food to a worn-out body, or, like iron, tend to enrich the blood, or, like quinine, aid in bringing an abnormal system to a healthy condition, are valuable servants and cannot be entirely dispensed with so long as man is subject to disease.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark

So long as machinery is simple and easily handled by one man, its owner cannot dominate the sources of life of others.
— from Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come by Edmond Kelly

"I undertook this work not self-moved and with no view to profit; and if I receive no pecuniary return from this work, on which I have expended no small labour and means, I shall have the satisfaction of having done all in my power to erect an historical monument to the character and merits of the fathers and founders of my native country."
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson

In the department of Art, Mr. Marsh possesses the Musée Français, Musée Royal, (proof before letters,) Liber Veritatis, Houghton Gallery, Florence Gallery, Publications of Dilettanti Society, and many other illustrated works and collections of engravings; the works of Bartsch, Ottley, Mengs, Visconti, Winchelmann, and other writers on the history and theory of Art; old illustrated works, among which are the original editions of Teuerdanck and Der Weiss Kunig; and many thousand steel engravings, including many originals by Albert Dürer, Luke of Leyden, Lucas Cranach, Aldegreuer, Wierx, the Sadelers Nauteuil, (among others the celebrated Louis XIV., size of life, and a proof of the Cadet à la Perle, by Masson,) Edelink, Drevet, Marc Antonio, and other old engravers of the Italian school; Callot, Ostade, Rembrandt, (including a most superb impression of the Christ Healing the Sick, the Hundred Guilder Piece, and the Portrait of Renier Ansloo,) Waterloo, Woollett, Sharp, Strange, Earlom, Wille, Ficquet Schmidt, Longhi, and Morghen; in short, nearly all the works of all the great masters in chalcography from the time of Dürer to the present day.
— from A Tour to the River Saguenay, in Lower Canada by Charles Lanman

Had I not struck her in mid-air as she leaped at me, I should probably have got some severe wound.
— from Animal Life of the British Isles A Pocket Guide to the Mammals, Reptiles and Batrachians of Wayside and Woodland by Edward Step

Such love as mine is stronger then death indeed!
— from Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier

She looked at me in some wonder.
— from In Kings' Byways by Stanley John Weyman

"She looked at me in surprise, wondering what I could mean, then placed the little one in its mother's arms; and the child, conscious, as children often are, of the spirit world around them, felt the dual presence, and lifting up its tiny hands gave a little cry of joy.
— from The Chariot of the Flesh by Hedley Peek

She looked at me in such a manner, half in earnest, half in jest, and three times three in love, that in spite of all good resolutions, and her own faint protest, I was forced to abandon all firm ideas, and kiss her till she was quite ashamed, and her head hung on my bosom, with the night of her hair shed over me.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore