When Chariclia was enamoured of Theagines, as [5245] Heliodorus sets her out, she was half distracted, and spake she knew not what, sighed to herself, lay much awake, and was lean upon a sudden: and when she was besotted on her son-in-law, [5246] pallor deformis, marcentes oculi , &c., she had ugly paleness, hollow eyes, restless thoughts, short wind, &c. Euryalus, in an epistle sent to Lucretia, his mistress, complains amongst other grievances, tu mihi et somni et cibi usum abstulisti , thou hast taken my stomach and my sleep from me.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The form of a novel—and how often a critic uses that expression too—is something that none of us, perhaps, has ever really contemplated.
— from The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock

exclaimed Uncle Peter, his eyes rolling in delight.
— from Vacation with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

Of undoubted piety, he enjoyed reputation for his justice and loyalty; hence he was appointed General of the forces equipped for the voyage.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

The lowest net earnings which the Union Pacific had ever recorded had been $4,315,077.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

He found his sister-in-law seated at an open window, her face unusually pink, her eyes rather defiantly bright.
— from The Country House by John Galsworthy

He then hopes to place himself at the head of a strong Union party having extensive ramifications both in the North and in the South, and to make 'Union or Disunion, not Freedom or Slavery,' the watchwords of political parties."
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine