His facial features, usually so emotionless, revealed a certain uneasiness.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Non, tu n'es pas de ceux qui vont à nous, rampant Sous l'herbe des jardins, comme fait le serpent; Infâmes délateurs qui touchent un salaire En révélant au roi la plainte populaire, Et livrent au bourreau, sous l'arbre du chemin, [Pg 236]
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

United States Energy Research and Development Administration Office of Public Affairs Washington, D.C. 20545 Transcriber’s Notes Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
— from Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 2 (of 3) Mass and Energy; The Neutron; The Structure of the Nucleus by Isaac Asimov

We pushed on with necessary cruelty, forcing the tired horses to their utmost, searching every ravine and every slope for a feed; but only ferns and strange green poisonous
— from The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland

Some of the expense, too, Don Joaquin managed to reduce by discovering a market he had hardly thought of till now, for the furs of animals he had himself shot; some of these animals were rather uncommon, some even rare, and he became aware of their commercial value only when bargaining for their making up into coats or cloaks for Sarella.
— from Mariquita: A Novel by John Ayscough

As it would be a part of the observer's work to note exactly how far down the gallery the shadow of its upper southern edge reached, as well as the moment when the sun's light passed from the western to the eastern wall of the gallery, and other details of the kind; besides, of course, taking time-observations of the moment when the sun's edge seemed to reach the edge of the gallery's southern opening; and as such observations could not be properly made by men standing on the smooth slanting floor of the gallery, it would be desirable to have cross-benches capable of being set at different heights along the sloping gallery.
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various

This bill declares that certain lands which nearly twenty-four years ago the United States entirely relinquished are still public lands, and directs the Attorney-General to begin suits to assert and protect the title of the United States in such lands.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

No woman has any settled principles; if she have any vague ones, it is the uttermost she ever reaches, and those can always be overturned by any man who has any influence over her.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

All the agents of nature into which the universal soul entered, received also a portion of its intelligence, and the Universe, in its totality and in its parts, was filled with intelligences, that might be regarded as so many emanations from the sovereign and universal intelligence.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike