Dora kept her eyes down, and smiled ambiguously. - George Gissing

The whirlpool![...] It's got hold of me, and I'm going down, old man — and it looks black as hell.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

— Amy said that would be an imprudent expense; but as soon as he had got a good price for a book. Will not the publishers be kind? If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!