She had known nothing in all her experience, read nothing, so tragical and terrible as the feelings of that poor little bride of nineteen, as she woke up from her romantic dream, and saw her father’s foolish old face so fresh and ruddy, so innocent and unconscious, just before it finally dropped out of sight to be seen no more.
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The Exeter road is much the same as that between Lyme Regis and Dorchester—winding, steep, narrow and rough in places—and the deadly Devonshire hedgerow on a high earthen ridge now shuts out our view of the landscape much of the time.
— from On Old-World Highways A Book of Motor Rambles in France and Germany and the Record of a Pilgrimage from Land's End to John O'Groats in Britain by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

But his cheek-bones were high, and his eyes rather narrowly set.
— from Her Royal Highness: A Romance of the Chancelleries of Europe by William Le Queux

And his educational reforms, not springing from the people themselves, followed him not long after.
— from On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd