Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Altogether, he looks, speaks, and acts as little like ‘a misanthrope’ as any man I ever saw.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

When she got opposite to my window she chanced to turn in that direction, and on seeing me cried out as if she had seen a ghost; but she soon recollected herself and ran away, laughing like a madcap, and rejoined the other ladies who were already in their room.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

and all in a chorus: "while we labor so, thou alone, free from contribution and labor, like a mistress art served by us all and the fruit of all our labors thou thyself alone dost enjoy."
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

This afternoon?" "Ah, Lignum, Lignum, as many as make an old woman of a young one, I begin to think.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Her obligations to Europe for science and art, laws, literature, and manners, America acknowledges as she ought, with respect and gratitude.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

Her greatest artist in this, very like so many of his Italian contemporaries, was not limited in his powers of expression to any one narrow mode, for Albert Dürer was painter, designer, engraver, but also like Leonardo a mathematician, and like Michelangelo a writer.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

As Paraguay is approached, low flat banks appear, which for many a long league are marshy and impassable.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

They lived and let live, and Maudie asked no more.
— from Boy Woodburn: A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant

Her bonnet was slung on her arm, her hair had broken a little loose and made a sort of hood round the face, so still, so composed, into which the light of steady, soft, apprehending eyes threw a gentle radiance.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete by Gilbert Parker

Halaaniani and Laieikawai lived as man and wife and Aiwohikupua's sisters acted as her servants.
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

He would cast down his eyes and look like a man abashed, and then gently, and with a mournful gesture, allow the words, “Morto, signor,” to come through his lips.
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

* * * * * And Walter Merritt Emory won his desire of Michael against Doctor Masters; had his wife dine with him at Jules’ that evening and took her to see Margaret Anglin in celebration of the victory; returned home at one in the morning, in his pyjamas went out to take a last look at Michael, and found no Michael.
— from Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

"As for a lady, ladies are made and not born," she said decidedly.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris