su 5 abigarrado horario el lugar preeminente entre los sólidos muebles del comedor, completando el ornato de las paredes una serie de láminas francesas que representaban las hazañas del conquistador de Méjico, con prolijas explicaciones al pie, en las cuales se hablaba de un Ferdinand Cortez y de 10 una Donna Marine tan inverosímiles como las figuras dibujadas por el ignorante artista.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The Daily Telegraph was just five minutes ahead, but within half an hour every London paper, morning and evening, and all the great provincial journals had rushed out their midnight specials, and from end to end of England and Scotland, and away to South Wales, and over the narrow seas to Dublin and Cork, the shrill screams of the newsboys, and the hoarse, raucous howls of the newsmen were spreading the terrible tidings over the land.
— from The World Peril of 1910 by George Chetwynd Griffith

In all his experience as a detective, it is doubtful if Edmond Stolliker was ever so surprised as at the tableau that faced him as he entered Leith Pierrepont's room.
— from The Curse of Pocahontas by Wenona Gilman

The choice of words was often far from perfect, as George Sand's vocabulary was often uncertain, and her expression lacked precision and relief.
— from George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic

Her cheeks were like roses now and her eyes like purple pansies.
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 4, October 20, 1900 Marion Marlowe's Noble Work; or, The Tragedy at the Hospital by Lurana Sheldon

Any other girl would have played with him a little, given a smile or two, and kept him off; but she, with her nose in the air, and her eyes looking past him, as if he was n't fit for her to see,—why, she made him feel as if he were the mud under her feet, and what could any one expect?
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth

After cracking the whip a few times to show how skillfully it could be done, the ringmaster proceeded [Pg 219] to deliver a highly entertaining lecture prepared by himself in collaboration with one Job, and to assure his hearers that his show possessed the only "genuine blood-sweatin' behemoth of Holy Writ now in captivity, regardluss of the claims of jealous compet'ors exackly as advertised."
— from Sube Cane by Bellamy Partridge

Pare and halve eight large pears.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

UPON HER EYES Clear are her eyes, Like purest skies; Discovering from thence
— from A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick by Robert Herrick

Her face never changes expression, and her eyes look positively glassy.
— from Peggy on the Road by Virginia Hughes