I know that everything was turning round, and the words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my ear.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Is there such a bird in my empire?
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

—No matter for that, cried my father——I should be sorry to appear with a blot in my escutcheon before them.—Never mind the bend-sinister, said my uncle Toby, putting on his tye-wig.——No, indeed, said my father—you may go with my aunt Dinah to a visitation with a bend-sinister, if you think fit—My poor uncle Toby blush’d.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

In like manner, we say, a man is too HIGH-SPIRITED, TOO INTREPID, TOO INDIFFERENT ABOUT FORTUNE: reproaches, which really, at bottom, imply more esteem than many panegyrics.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

May not he and she, as King and Queen of the Wood, have been serious counterparts of the merry mummers who play the King and Queen of May, the Whitsuntide Bridegroom and Bride in modern Europe?
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

“You are a beauty in my eyes, and a beauty just after the desire of my heart,—delicate and aërial.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

We'll go o'horseback, said my father, turning to Yorick—Of all things in the world, except politicks, the clergy know the least of heraldry, said Yorick.—No matter for that, cried my father—I should be sorry to appear with a blot in my escutcheon before them.—Never mind the bend-sinister, said my uncle Toby, putting on his tye-wig.—No, indeed, said my father—you may go with my aunt Dinah to a visitation with a bend-sinister, if you think fit—My poor uncle Toby blush'd.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The following report was adopted by the Council: It is, believed that unwarranted and exaggerated therapeutic claims are made for Succus Alterans by its manufacturers, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

It was now blowing viciously hard, the boat, half-buried in a white smother, would scarcely steer, and the bright light from a window ahead beat into my eyes, bewildering my vision.
— from The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

I looked at the dragoon and caught his eye—such a bright, intelligent, mischievous eye!—and I could not avoid bowing.
— from The Adventures of a Modest Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Its first ancient beach is more easily traced for almost its entire course than any of the other old levels.
— from The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert

Weatherbee loved to discourse blatantly on politics, while Cuthfert, who had been prone to clip his coupons and let the commonwealth jog on as best it might, either ignored the subject or delivered himself of startling epigrams.
— from The Son of the Wolf by Jack London

Silence for a time and a buzzing in my ear.
— from Perkins, the Fakeer: A Travesty on Reincarnation His wonderful workings in the cases of "When Reginald was Caroline", "How Chopin came to Remsen", and "Clarissa's troublesome baby" by Edward S. (Edward Sims) Van Zile

At the present moment I can hear such a buzzing in my ears.”
— from Round the Fire Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle