His height, swarthy complexion, black hair, piercing black eyes, large but straight nose—an attribute of his nation—and the cold and melancholy smile which ever hovered around his lips, all seemed to concur in lending him the appearance of a man apart, incapable of reciprocating the thoughts and passions of those whom fate gave him for companions.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

People who don't resemble them, or who treat them with indifference, people over whom they gain no influence, are people on whose existence, however meritorious it may intrinsically be, they look with chill negation, if not with positive hate.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But Villefort uttered words which even he himself did not believe.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The readers of the Hosannah will re- gret to learn that the hadndsome and popular Sir Charolais of Gaul, who dur- ing his four weeks’ stay at the Bull and Halibut, this city, has won every heart by his polished manners and elegant cPnversation, will pUll out to-day for home.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Sometimes she would draw; and it was great amusement to Charles to stand there bolt upright and watch her bend over her cardboard, with eyes half-closed the better to see her work, or rolling, between her fingers, little bread-pellets.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

I know not why she should choose to make herself and her family uneasy by apprehending an event which no one but herself, I can affirm, would ever have thought possible.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

I soon suppressed the name the moment I perceived I was entirely his victim.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Surely the Brands' flat was exactly here, on the left, near the head of the staircase.
— from Moth and Rust; Together with Geoffrey's Wife and The Pitfall by Mary Cholmondeley

They felt solemn and important; and for once they would even have been glad to go to church in order to show this unusual adornment.
— from Miss Esperance and Mr Wycherly by L. Allen (Lizzie Allen) Harker

His enterprises [pg 692] failed, wealth eluded his grasp, and he found himself oppressed with vast debts, incurred in the great undertakings in which he had embarked.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

It was evident he was deeply impressed by the obvious inference to be drawn from the life of the mighty young Macedonian,—the youth who conquered worlds, only to be himself conquered by his own vices.
— from Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet

Mr. Langton recollects having passed an evening with both of them, when Mr. Burke repeatedly entered upon topicks which it was evident he would have illustrated with extensive knowledge and richness of expression; but Johnson always seized upon the conversation, in which, however, he acquitted himself in a most masterly manner.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

“I know!” broke in Aleko, whose eyes had been fixed on the entrance of the narrow street.
— from Under Greek Skies by Ioulia D. Dragoume

Then at the time of our greatest troubles, came that which Elsje had expected and longed for as the highest blessing - maternity.
— from The Bride of Dreams by Frederik van Eeden

It is probable that the Emporiae, some of whose elphin horse coins were reproduced on page 281 , were worshippers of Aurelie Ambrosie or “St. Ambrose” of whom it will be remembered: “some said that they saw a star upon his body”: it is also not unlikely that our Mary Ambree or Fair Ambree was the daughter of Amber, the divine Umpire and the Emperor of the Empyrean.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

Once he thought he distinguished her at the back of the stage—but for the rest it was her sister rather than the friendly Cora who engaged his thoughts.
— from Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic