His side of Lowick was the most remote from the village, and the houses of the laboring people were either lone cottages or were collected in a hamlet called Frick, where a water-mill and some stone-pits made a little centre of slow, heavy-shouldered industry.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

She had bright hair tied up with a blue ribbon and her gay, lovely eyes were exactly like Colin's unhappy ones, agate gray and looking twice as big as they really were because of the black lashes all round them.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The singer would have conquered an audience of American rowdies by her brave, unflinching tranquillity (for she answered encore after encore, and smiled and bowed pleasantly, and sang the best she possibly could, and went bowing off, through all the jeers and hisses, without ever losing countenance or temper:) and surely in any other land than Italy her sex and her helplessness must have been an ample protection to her--she could have needed no other.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Adrian's countenance flitted across, tainted by death—Idris, with eyes languidly closed and livid lips, was about to slide into the wide grave.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Ipse mihi dictator simul notarius (= shorthand writer) et librarius (= copyist),” he writes.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

In the service of the four preceding emperors, Vitellius had imbibed the principal vices of them all: but what chiefly distinguished him was extreme voraciousness, which, though he usually pampered it with enormous luxury, could yet be gratified by the vilest and most offensive garbage.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The beautiful Catalane and noble countess had lost both her proud glance and charming smile, because she saw nothing but misery around her; the walls were hung with one of the gray papers which economical landlords choose as not likely to show the dirt; the floor was uncarpeted; the furniture attracted the attention to the poor attempt at luxury; indeed, everything offended eyes accustomed to refinement and elegance.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It is true that nothing was ever less curious on the score of architecture than the worthy gapers of the Middle Ages, and that they cared very little for the beauty of a pillory.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

(5) 'With eyes like carbuncles' has been much ridiculed, but Milton ( P.L. ix.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

He felt it beneath her to utter the homage which every look conveyed.
— from The Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

It now only remains questionable whether each larva could have been forced to undergo metamorphosis, but this could only be decided by new experiments.
— from Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume II by August Weismann

THE SIGN FOR MAN AND THE REMEMBRANCER FOR GOD 'And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

There is a keeper’s lodge, in this Cingalese paradise, covered with creepers, and a formal level parterre in front, one mass of brilliant floral colour—African marigolds, fuchsias, poppies, blue centred daisies, sunflowers, blue convolvulus, Amaryllis, and white eucharis lilies, canaryensis, polyanthus and many more; some that might be found in English gardens and hot-houses, with other tropical wonders only seen at Kew.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

It is by Porta S. Pietro that we enter Lucca, coming by 414 rail from Pistoja, and from Pisa too, then crossing La Madonnina and Corso Garibaldi by Via Nazionale, we come almost at once into Piazza Giglio, where the old Palazzo Arnolfi stands—a building of the sixteenth century that is now Albergo Universo.
— from Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton

The power generated in the boilers does its work through machines of which each little cog-wheel is as indispensable as the great shafts.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

The whim to live in a workman’s cottage was even less convincing.
— from The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Rupert Hughes

34 " We are not to measure things from any truth they have in themselves, but from that aspect they have upon the government; for there may be every tittle of a libel true, and yet it may be a libel still ; so that I put no great stress upon that objection, that the matter of it is not false; and for sedition, it is that which every libel carries in itself: and as every trespass implies vi and armis , so every libel against the government carries in it sedition, and all the other epithets that are in the information.
— from The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

Here they lived a wild life, hoping that the emperor would ere long clear the country of the invaders.
— from The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

On she came, till she stood within a spear’s length of where Eric lay, crouched in the bush, and looking at her through the hedge of reeds.
— from Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard