Coggan twirled his eye, edged forward, and caught the money in its ricochet upon the road.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

At present we no longer have any mercy upon the concept "free-will": we know only too well what it is—the most egregious theological trick that has ever existed for the purpose of making mankind "responsible" in a theological manner,—that is to say, to make mankind dependent upon theologians.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The regular home of the elephant in Northern India is the Terai or lowland jungle at the foot of the Himālaya, extending eastward from about the longitude of Cawnpore.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

This duet is one of the most beautiful, expressive and terrible conceptions that has ever emanated from the fruitful pen of Donizetti.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

They agreed that until that time he should come to her every evening, for the old woman came by day.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

The only woman that had ever existed for him was the Malay girl he called “My wife the princess,” or, more rarely, in moments of expansion, “the mother of my Emma.”
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Though they had experienced every form of despotism, they had now enjoyed that exemption near five hundred years; nor could they patiently brook the insolence of an Illyrian peasant, who, from his distant residence in Asia, presumed to number Rome among the tributary cities of his empire.
— 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

“In this case the good fairy would be true love,” said Canalis in a curt tone, aware that his elaborate excuse for a rupture was seen through by the keen and delicate mind which Butscha had piloted so well.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Mr. Boothe turned his expressionless eyes full upon the new clerk and shook his hand automatically.
— from The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

In Italy, as in France, the viol appears to have enjoyed earlier favour than in England, where the fiddle or crowd (the descendant, probably, of the Welsh instrument crwth ) was its predecessor.
— from The Violin Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc. by George Dubourg

When he got into the room he saw that her emotional excitement far surpassed his own.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

The same owner, John Stanburne's grandfather, had ruthlessly carried out that piece of Vandalism over the whole front of the mansion, and, except what architects call a string-course (which was still traceable here and there), had effaced every feature that gave expression to the original design of the Elizabethan builder.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Even that Dr. Hall, who had married his favorite [84] daughter, and who attended him, and who published a medical book containing accounts of a thousand and more cases which he thought of consequence for the world to know about, has no word to say concerning this grandest patient that his eye ever fell upon.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 2: From Elizabeth to Anne by Donald Grant Mitchell

At length, after many more posts had come in without a line to pacify Edward's fears, without a word in reply to his earnest entreaties for some news, he determined on taking a step which he had meditated before, and only relinquished out of consideration for his friend's wishes.
— from International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 by Various

The queen and her party were daily gaining upon the mind of the king; and Cranmer himself, notwithstanding the high esteem entertained for him by Henry, had begun to be endangered by their machinations, when an unexpected discovery put into his hands the means of baffling all their designs, and producing a total revolution in the face of the court.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

She turned her eloquent eyes full upon him.
— from The Missing Bride by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth