Gold hair, blue eyes, and rose-red lips—they all were there.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Moreover, he had light hair, prominent blue eyes, a round face, was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

On the appearance of an enemy, they threw aside their baggage, and by easy and rapid evolutions converted the column of march into an order of battle.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Before giving the reader a summary of Sherman's great Atlanta campaign, which must conclude my description of the various co-operative movements preparatory to proceeding with that of the operations of the centre, I will briefly mention Sheridan's first raid upon Lee's communications which, though an incident of the operations on the main line and not specifically marked out in the original plan, attained in its brilliant execution and results all the proportions of an independent campaign.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

With his chin tucked down in his shy childish manner, he was looking furtively at Mrs Boffin out of his blue eyes, and reaching his fat dimpled hand up to the lips of the old woman, who was kissing it by times.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Ash-barrels serve them as counters, and not infrequently does the arrival of the official cart en route for the dump cause a temporary suspension of trade until the barrels have been emptied and restored.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Surely this is a very obvious image or symbol of the beautiful, the ideal, aspect of bacchic elation and revelry.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

My family had its origin in a village in the mountains of Leon, and nature had been kinder and more generous to it than fortune; though in the general poverty of those communities my father passed for being even a rich man; and he would have been so in reality had he been as clever in preserving his property as he was in spending it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

To be able to live, the Greeks had, from direst necessity, to create these gods: which process we may perhaps picture to ourselves in this manner: that out of the original Titan thearchy of terror the Olympian thearchy of joy was evolved, by slow transitions, through the Apollonian impulse to beauty, even as roses break forth from thorny bushes.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

365 —Use of the Ruling Pen—Proportional Compasses, p. 367 —Tracings—Conclusion, p. 368 . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Sketch Design for Equestrian Statue, by E. A. Rickards , F.R.I.B.A. Frontispiece ARCHITECTURE, HISTORIC No.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn

A monument to the memory of this great man has been erected at Richmond, and another at Lexington.
— from A Beginner's History by William H. (William Harrison) Mace

This will suppose, to be efficient, a recognized leader and an es
— from Catholic Problems in Western Canada by George Thomas Daly

Four United States senators only have been elected, all Republican.
— from Minnesota, the North Star State by William Watts Folwell

For the ammunition and equipment required for the infantry and artillery, a good laboratory and workshop had been established at Richmond.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

We have neither the means nor the ability England possesses of building extensively and rapidly."
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

An understanding between England and Russia will preserve the peace of Europe."
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

He was a short, strongly built man with blue eyes and red hair.
— from Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson