Now he wished to visit Tabor Island, and as a boat of a certain size was necessary for this voyage, he determined to build one.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Simon himself was lean, Michael was thin, and Matryona was dry as a bone, but this man was like some one from another world: red-faced, burly, with a neck like a bull’s, and looking altogether as if he were cast in iron.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And, I'll warrant, my little dear has topped her part, and paraded it like any real wife; and so mimics still the condition!—Why, said she, and turned me round, thou art as mincing as any bride!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

They are for the most part of very late origin, being post-Vedic, and, all but three, contemporaneous with the Purāṇas.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Thousands of earth-dwellers have momentarily glimpsed an astral being or an astral world.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The English remnant stand behind at attention; beside them are stores and vehicles for the retreat.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It is at when thou shalt see rabble of this sort offering us insult thou art not to wait till I draw sword against them, for I shall not do so at all; but do thou draw sword and chastise them to thy heart's content, and if any knights come to their aid and defence I will take care to defend thee and assail them with all my might; and thou hast already seen by a thousand signs and proofs what the might of this strong arm of mine is equal to"—so uplifted had the poor gentleman become through the victory over the stout Biscayan.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He was erect and alert, but his hair was white and his complexion of an odd ivory yellow.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

[20] There is an analogy between this logical necessity and moral obligation but there is not an actual identity.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

It seems to be settled now, isn't it—though of course Zilla keeps rooting for a nice expensive vacation in New York and Atlantic City, with the bright lights and the bootlegged cocktails and a bunch of lounge-lizards to dance with—but the Babbitts and the Rieslings are sure-enough going to Lake Sunasquam, aren't we?
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

This they did and little Aslög grew up as a beggar's child.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian by Charles Morris

“I don’t believe it is always as bad as it is to-night,” said I with a laugh.
— from Minerva's Manoeuvres: The Cheerful Facts of a "Return to Nature" by Charles Battell Loomis

He says of the young female: “The black streaking of this dress is less obvious both above and below than in the male, the plumage everywhere is browner, and the crown patch very obscure.”
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

"There are owls about the size of our common sort, but of a finer plumage; the cuckoos mentioned at Palmerston's Island; king-fishers, about the size of a thrush, of a greenish blue, with a white ring about the neck; and a bird of the thrush kind, almost as big, of a dull green colour, with two yellow wattles at the base of the bill, which is the only singing one we observed here; but it compensates a good deal for the want of others by the strength and melody of its notes, which fill the woods at dawn, in the evening, and at the breaking up of bad weather.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

per acre, and better, a great quantity of it.
— from The Natural History of Wiltshire by John Aubrey

This work, which had been begun before in the German style, he undertook to do; and assisted by many stonecutters from Settignano, he brought it to perfect completion, making with his own hand, in the lunette of the façade, a Madonna with the Child in her arms, and certain angels who are holding open her mantle, under which the people of that city appear to be taking shelter, while S. Laurentino and S. Pergentino, kneeling below, are interceding for them.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi by Giorgio Vasari

Freke was no handsomer as a man than as a boy; he had been steadily making ducks and drakes of his fortune since he was twenty-five; yet, somehow, Freke always seemed to have a plenty of friends, solely by the charm of his personality.
— from Throckmorton: A Novel by Molly Elliot Seawell

Different as American business men are one from another in temperament, circumstances, and habits, they have a way of becoming fundamentally very much alike.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

And many a childish face, which had been bright and clean with scrubbing, continued schoolward as sticky as a bear cub in a bee-tree.
— from The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

At this perpetually winding circle of trees, there were passages which opened into flower-gardens, and from them into shrubberies, laid out into areas and beds.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg