Franny and Zooey (J. D. Salinger)
Then she placed her hands, vertically, over her eyes and pressed the heels hard, as though to paralyze the optic nerve and drown all images into a voidlike black.
The Fateful Circle (Emil Miller)
The two officers exchanged glances, and the next question brought a bemused look to the face of the bereaved man when he was asked to account for his own movements that day.
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
It was not the first time, nor the second, that I had gone away - as it seemed, permanently - but yet returned, like the bad half-penny; or as if Salem were for me the inevitable centre of the universe.
The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)
They run together toward the open doorway, awkwardly, bumping up against each other, the old Jew's fingers never once letting go of the woman's wrist.
The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)
There is no boy, there are no footsteps when he leaves.
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
It is another, a worse kind of sickness.
Don Quixote (Motteux translation)
The Knight had not travelled far, when he fancied he heard an effeminate voice complaining in a thicket on his right hand.