The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
— from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In the water are all kinds of fish and reptiles, and swimming upon the surface or flying overhead are great flocks of ducks and pigeons, while all about the shores are bear tracks crossing [ 322 ] in every direction.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The scissors and knives upon the bench showed that the child herself had cut them; and the bright scraps of velvet and silk and ribbon also strewn upon the bench showed that when duly stuffed (and stuffing too was there), she was to cover them smartly.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

attered down flagged passages, looking into room after room, and scaring unknown maids from the performance of obscure duties.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

He made no reply, but looked down and bit his lip, and shortly after rose and sauntered up to Miss Wilson, as much repelled by me, I fancy, as attracted by her.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The wall, by the touch, was of fine hewn stone; the steps too, though somewhat steep and narrow, were of polished masonwork, and regular and solid underfoot.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Then suddenly Evans began to swear and rave, and stamp upon the ground.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In that battle a youth called Imma, one of the king's thegns, was struck down, and having lain as if dead all that day and the next night among the bodies of the slain, at length he came to himself and revived, and sitting up, bound his own wounds as best as he could.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

[pg 308] long as they are regarded as strange, uncanny, or in some degree unsound in scope or tendency, they are made gratuitously harmful through the quality of thought concerning them.
— from Victor Serenus: A Story of the Pauline Era by Henry Wood

And there was the lion, a-ripping around under me, and roaring and springing up in the air at the ladder, and only missing it about a quarter of an inch, it seemed to me.
— from Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain

“The wind and river are shoving us along together.”
— from The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer

All people looked upon themselves as ruined and swallowed up; the inhabitants of two-thirds of all Germany put themselves into mourning for him; when the ministers mentioned him in their sermons or prayers, whole congregations would burst out into tears.
— from Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe

They are represented as standing upon their tails, and each of them has fastened its teeth upon the disputed prize.
— from Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches of Some Unrevealed Religions by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

"Contarini Fleming," "Coningsby," "Tancred," "Lothair," and "Endymion" are the most important of a brilliant and witty series, in which many prominent personages are represented and satirised under thin disguises.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

The browns and blacks, like the blues, yellows, and reds, are simply used to express local color.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

Pandule and Rali also stood up.
— from The White Hecatomb, and Other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

He joined in the capture of the navy yard and of Fort Barancas, and later became a lieutenant in Company H, Fifty-ninth Alabama regiment, and served under General Bragg in Tennessee and Kentucky, participating in the battles of Chickamauga and Knoxville.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley