He closed his eyes and lay quite still and she held his hand and began to speak very slowly and in a very low voice.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

These were his first words since he had entered the house; he tried to lift his eyes, and look around, but dared not; Evgenie Pavlovitch noticed his confusion, and smiled.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This is the old custom, which shows the reverence in which even the old Tartars must have held education and learning.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

After a while the weather cleared up a little, and the beetle was able to rub the water from his eyes, and look about him.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

This man, who was old and dim-sighted, put on his spectacles to behold me better; at which I could not forbear laughing very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon shining into a chamber at two windows.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

To his fellow-contributors in the London Magazine he was always most generous, and praises Barry Cornwall, Allan Cunningham, Hazlitt, Elton, and Leigh Hunt without anything of the malice of a friend.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

The Sleeping Palace The Sleeping Beauty The Arrival The Revival The Departure L'Envoi Epilogue Amphion St. Agnes Sir Galahad Edward Gray Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue To ­ ­ , after reading a Life and Letters To E.L., on his Travels in Greece Lady Clare The Lord of Burleigh Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere: a Fragment A Farewell The Beggar Maid The Vision of Sin "Come not, when I am dead" The Eagle "Move eastward, happy earth, and leave" "Break, break, break" The Poet's Song Appendix ­ Suppressed Poems Elegiacs The "How" and the "Why" Supposed Confessions The Burial of Love To ­ ­ ("Sainted Juliet! dearest name !")
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

While the narrative is predominant in these books, Mr. Fullerton has encompassed a large amount of practical baseball instruction for boys; and, what is of greater value, he has shown the importance of manliness, sportsmanship and clean living to any boy who desires to excel in baseball or any other sport.
— from The Brighton Boys at Chateau-Thierry by James R. Driscoll

I sat down on one of the steps, under the shadow of a huge elm, and looked upward toward the sky along the broken avenue of trees that led aloft.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

Sir Miles, with a careless smile, had in his eye a look of determination.
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice

'Twas in the middle of the lane leading down to Hendra Bottom, where for more than a mile two carts can't pass each other, that my father pricks up his ears and looks back.
— from I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Two ladies they called on, and one must surely have expected a little girl would come to visit because she had tea served with sandwiches (Mary Jane ate three, two made with marmalade and one with lettuce—think of that!)
— from Mary Jane: Her Book by Clara Ingram Judson

Anyway the madness abruptly died out of his eyes and left him shaking.
— from The Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana Hills by Ridgwell Cullum

He closed his eyes and leaned back, dead tired.
— from The Caves of Fear: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

XL Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.
— from Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley

he exclaimed at length, in a tone of such earnest sincerity that it made her laugh, the words seemed to rush spontaneously from his lips.
— from Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" by Martha Finley

She deliberately made more room, patting the cushions invitingly with a flashing hand, that alone, thought Devonham contemptuously, could have endowed at least two big Cliniques.
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood