On the other hand, if thou believest in Him and dost recognize Him with true understanding, and He saith: ‘I have accepted thine entire life spent in My adoration’, then assuredly hast thou been worshipping Him most ardently.
— from Selections From the Writings of the Báb by `Ali Muhammad Shirazi Bab

If Terry left a rope ladder or something hanging over the edge last summer, it must be gone by now.”
— from Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case by Dorothy Wayne

It was a handsome one, as I have said, but it had also a very candid expression; the eyes looked straight into mine, and, while showing anxiety, betrayed no deeper emotion than the occasion naturally called for.
— from The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green

No man among them had asked me a question; with Farrell's simple statement there had come the hand-grip, the eyes looking straight into my own; the silent acceptance of me as comrade.
— from My Lady of Doubt by Randall Parrish

Perhaps, however, the existence of such a feeling in the recesses of his breast may be detected in the prominent manner in which he brings forward the discouragement he experienced when the first volume of his history was published, and the extremely limited sale it met with for some time after its first appearance.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 407, September, 1849 by Various

The earl looked somewhat impassable, Mr. Carlyle amused.
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.