There was an unwonted light in his eyes, and a slight trembling of his lips.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

The old fellow weeps and laughs alternately, caresses his son frequently, and declares they shall never part again; the scene ends by the youth shedding tears over his late inhuman conduct, and he finally walks off with the old gentleman on his back.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

They will in all places be doing thus, young folks especially, reading love stories, talking of this or that young man, such a fair maid, singing, telling or hearing lascivious tales, scurrilous tunes, such objects are their sole delight, their continual meditation, and as Guastavinius adds, Com.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Page 81 [81] When he sang to the sweet tones of his lyre, he charmed all nature, and summoned round him the wild beasts of the forests, who, under the influence of his music, became tame and gentle as lambs.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

She turned on him like a tiger, and there was battle.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

These words spoken, he clasped his wife in the desired embrace, and, sinking in her lap, wooed quiet slumber to overspread his limbs.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

By the South laying down their arms they will hasten that most desirable event, save thousands of human lives, and hundreds of millions of property not yet destroyed.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Lay hold upon him, Priam, hold him fast; He is thy crutch; now if thou lose thy stay, Thou on him leaning, and all Troy on thee, Fall all together.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Would you say ‘most,’ I replied, when you consider that there is a further stage of the evil in which a man is not only a life-long litigant, passing all his days in the courts, either as plaintiff or defendant, but is actually led by his bad taste to pride himself on his litigiousness; he imagines that he is C a master in dishonesty; able to take every crooked turn, and wriggle into and out of every hole, bending like a withy and getting out of the way of justice: and all for what?—in order to gain small points not worth mentioning, he not knowing that so to order his life as to be able to do without a napping judge is a far higher and nobler sort of thing.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

I see a sermon trembling on her lips: her knit eyebrows announce a terrible admonition, and the quivering nostril already sends to my ears the sound of harsh reprimand.
— from La Gaviota: A Spanish novel by Fernán Caballero

It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.
— from Dear Enemy by Jean Webster

With that same glance the moon espied St. Michael in the lancet window, sedulously trampling on his little dragon, while the old clock above his head recorded the passing of the hours with a labour of slow strokes.
— from Mitchelhurst Place: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Margaret Veley

[ 15 ] A dead man going slowly, sadly, To occupy his last abode, A curate by him, rather gladly, Did holy service on the road.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

She turned on him like a fury.
— from The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume

Thus, for a time, all was silent, till the censor Woo, falling upon his knees, and holding above his head his silver seal of office, gravely said, "Since our lord has vouchsafed us his heavenly audience, and the door of the imperial apartments is no longer disfigured by the audience-denying tablet, it is the duty of the meanest of his slaves to open his lips, even at the risk of his life."
— from The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by William Dalton

Generally, when summoned to the evening meal, the blacksmith hastily plunged his head in the barrel of water used to temper steel, thrust off his leather apron, and went up to the house without more ado.
— from The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

In the end her remarkable patience and her silence helped to vindicate her in this severest trial of her life.
— from The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth

"It is surely worth a dollar to a man to know that he has been instrumental in saving thousands of human lives."
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge