“I have eaten nothing, thank God!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I arrived,” answered Levin, in his emotion not at once understanding her question.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It required all her resolution, to forbear communicating to Madame Montoni the terrible subject, which still thrilled her every nerve with horror; and sometimes she was on the point of doing so, merely to obtain the relief of a moment; but she knew how wholly she was in the power of Montoni, and, considering, that the indiscretion of her aunt might prove fatal to them both, she compelled herself to endure a present and an inferior evil, rather than to tempt a future and a heavier one.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The inhabitants of our side of the moon have, evidently, no darkness at all, so there can be nothing of the “extremes” mentioned.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But what has hitherto escaped notice is that they also seriously impair the credibility of Ssu-ma Ch`ien's narrative.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

But as he raised his eyes now he saw a certain helpless quivering which touched him quite newly, and made him look at Rosamond with a questioning flash.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Her eyes now were imploring, soft, and at the same time trustful, caressing, timid.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He never was undeceived as to my real position, nor is he even now.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

His progress, though rapid, had been so short, that he could not be supposed to have laid up store against such a day of trouble, and as he still cherished hopes of surmounting those obstacles which had so suddenly started up in his way, he would not resign his equipage nor retrench his expenses, but appeared as usual in all public places with that serenity and confidence of feature which he had never deposited, and maintained his external pomp upon the little he had reserved in the days of his prosperity, and the credit he had acquired by the punctuality of his former payments.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

These accounts had to be drawn up by the overseer or superintendent of the rancho at which the Indians were employed before the latter left for home each night.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

His eyes now read it.
— from The Regent by Arnold Bennett

We had expected not to find corpses of the killed near to the walls of Diarbekir, but we were mistaken, for we journeyed among the bodies until we entered the city gate.
— from Martyred Armenia by Fa'iz Ghusayn

Sorely shaken, and cruelly gored by the stag in trunk and limbs, and yet more sorely shaken in his mind by the agitation and excitement of the angry scene with his master, and by the internal conflict of natural selfishness with strong conscientious will, Kenric lay, with his eyes wide open, gazing on his dead nephew, although his mind was far away, with his head throbbing, and his every nerve jerking and tense with the hot fever.
— from Wager of Battle: A Tale of Saxon Slavery in Sherwood Forest by Henry William Herbert

It was scarcely wanted, as I have enough needles and thread to supply a slop-shop; and the old duck left by the French will keep me in jackets and trowsers for the remainder of my days.
— from Afloat and Ashore: A Sea Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

Hottinger, Joh. Heinrich : Historia Ecclesiastica Novi Testamenti.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

Unwieldy sea-monsters, the stories of which are counted fables by the spectacled collectors who think their catalogues have exhausted nature; naked-eyed creatures, staring, glaring, nightmare-like spectres of the ghastly-green abysses; pulpy islands, with life in gelatinous immensity,—what a company of hungry heirs at every ocean funeral!
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Says Mr. Denton: "I have evidence now before me, that the roots of the wheat plant, the mangold wurzel, the cabbage, and the white turnip, frequently descend into the soil to the depth of three feet.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French