From beneath their broad-brimmed hats of palm-leaf gleamed eyes which, even in good-nature and merriment, had a kind of animal ferocity.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The ZEALAND was a finer ship; but the ZEALAND and all the others were burned, and their brass battering cannon sunk with the hulls in such shoal water, that, when the fleet returned from Revel, they found the Danes, with craft over the wrecks, employed in getting the guns up again.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

"You talk as if you were a sexagenarian," said Wyvis, exploding into genial laughter.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

We almost live in the garden, where everything is growing and blooming and glowing.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The two peasants, who were even in greater consternation than their poultry, rolled their eyes as if they were possessed, without venturing to move, and their old wrinkled faces had not a smile, not a twitch.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

From thence the king went north to Gudbrandsdal, where he was entertained in guest-quarters.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Naglabulábu ang káun sa inyu, They were eating in great quantities and without restraint at your house.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Inside the wards everything is gloomy.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In the absence of testimony from the Caucasian side, we must see what evidence is given on the other side of the house.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

he whispered, evidently in great excitement: "the King is dead, and another King must sit upon the throne.
— from In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685 by Evelyn Everett-Green

Sir Charles Lyell points out that "the hiatus which exists in Great Britain between the fossils of the Lias and those of the Magnesian Lime [221] stone, is supplied in Germany by the rich fauna and flora of the Muschelkalk, Keuper, and Bunter Sandstein, which we know to be of a date precisely intermediate."
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 1 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

The horseman rode near the pass, and saw there the wall and outside it the small Spartan force, some of whom were engaged in gymnastic exercises, while others were combing their long hair.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek by Charles Morris

Tea was in progress when Mimi suddenly started up with a look of fright on her face; at the same moment, the men became cognisant of a thick smoke which began to spread through the room—a smoke which made those who experienced it gasp and choke.
— from The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

The late Jennie Collins, of Boston, one of the earliest persons in the United States, to devote herself to this branch of the “woman question,” said: It is easy for a young girl to obtain employment but let her go where she will, even in government positions at Washington, she will find her innocence assailed if not made the price at which she gets a chance to work.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

We will not attempt to pry into the grief which existed in Gerrard’s home.
— from Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy by William Henry Giles Kingston

While engaged in gathering up the prisoners, sending them to the rear and exulting over the victory, the noise of artillery wheels was heard (it was impossible to see far, on account of the smoke and fog), and the men were ordered back to the woods whence they had just charged.
— from Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5 In Camp—en Bivouac—on the March—on Picket—on the Skirmish Line—on the Battlefield—and in Prison by W. H. (William Henry) Morgan

The rest of the day was employed in games, trick riding, rope throwing and the like.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico; Or, The End of the Silver Trail by Frank Gee Patchin

The change was effected in good time to allow the two friends to join the occupants of the poop cabin at supper, where Captain Marshall made them duly acquainted with his fellow adventurers.
— from Two Gallant Sons of Devon: A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Harry Collingwood