The attitude is placid and dignified, like a Buddha statue; the face, Pg 441 Pg 442 Pg 443 now mutilated, is crowned by an enormous head-dress, of peculiar style, presenting a fantastic head with a diadem and medallions, topped by huge feathers like those on the columns at Tula and Chichen-Itza.
— from The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882 by Désiré Charnay

Will you send him to me, dear lord?' Venantius had seated himself on a chair that was beside the bed; he wore a dubious look, and, before speaking again, glanced keenly at Basil.
— from Veranilda by George Gissing

Men who fight each other for money ought to be classed with bulldogs, wear muzzles and a dog license, and be shunned by all decent people,” and the old man lit his pipe with deliberation and smoked a long time in silence.
— from Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

The Spanish Minister led Lancken aside and said some things to him that he would have hesitated to say in the presence of Harrach, Falkenhausen, and de Leval, a Belgian subject.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

Our friend spent most of his time in the shallow water near the banks, where larger fishes were not so likely to follow him, but even there he had many narrow escapes and was obliged to keep himself hidden as much as possible under chips and dead leaves, and behind stones.
— from Forest Neighbors: Life Stories of Wild Animals by William Davenport Hulbert

Mollie paced up and down like a bedlamite, sobbing and scolding to herself, and quite broken down with one day's imprisonment.
— from The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming