He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

A youngish composer in pass of becoming famous was discoursing from a music stool to two thick men whose backs looked old, and three slender women whose backs looked young.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

“But last of all,” they said, “came one in silver armor, and he had a silver bridle on his horse, and a silver saddle, and
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He had also been commanded to carry Herod's ring to Caesar, and the settlements he had made, sealed up, because Caesar was to be lord of all the settlements he had made, and was to confirm his testament; and he ordered that the dispositions he had made were to be kept as they were in his former testament. 9.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

SCRAPE, cheap butter; “bread and SCRAPE ,” the bread and butter issued to school-boys—so called from the butter being laid on, and then scraped off again, for economy’s sake.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The wine-shop was a corner shop, better than most others in its appearance and degree, and the master of the wine-shop had stood outside it, in a yellow waistcoat and green breeches, looking on at the struggle for the lost wine.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Whilst I was thus closely scanning him, half-pretending meanwhile to be looking out at the storm from the casement, he never heeded my presence, never troubled himself with so much as a single glance; but appeared wholly occupied with counting the pages of the marvellous book.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

They have been long oppressed; and the same heart that prompts me to plead the cause of the American bondman, makes it impossible for me not to sympathize with the oppressed of all lands.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The tar barrel lay on a thwart, spewing green flame from its mouth.
— from Egholm and his God by Johannes Buchholtz

But I reckon by this time you have found out that Gideon Ward and the Lumbermen's Association come pretty near bein' lord of all they survey in this country.
— from The Rainy Day Railroad War by Holman Day

And, turning about, we saw indistinctly through a crowd of swaying stems the mooncalf’s shining sides, and the long line of its back loomed out against the sky.
— from The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

For ages and ages the royal surveyors have been laying out all their skill on this slough.
— from Bunyan Characters (1st Series) by Alexander Whyte

At first, thinking, no doubt, that the evacuation was only an affair of two or three days, none of the charitable women of the town thought it necessary to visit the Market, so all the care of the unfortunates was left in the hands of some half-dozen men; but later on, as the stream continued to pour through, and the congestion became more and more acute, many women, some after a hard day's work, came in the evenings and helped to serve the meals.
— from Round about Bar-le-Duc by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day

[ Helden-Geschichte, i. 534.] Colonel Posadowsky (active Horse Colonel whom we have seen before, who perhaps has been in Breslau before) left orders "at the Scultet Garden-House," that all must be ready and the rooms warmed, his Majesty intending to arrive here early on the morrow.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle

The King's Mews, on which a violating hand had hardly yet been laid, occupied all the space to the left; and the flaming ensign of the Golden Cross, stuck up in front of a tall narrow-fronted house, told that the place of many coaches was before the traveller's eyes.
— from Delaware; or, The Ruined Family. Vol. 1 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

[127] About him stand the best loved of all the saints, the apostles—plain, primitive men in whose upturned foreheads shines the serenity of certitude.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

I was roasted by the time we reached the villa of the Prince Royal: it is not yet finished, but it will be delightful in the most beautiful renaissance style; it is admirably situated with splendid views, but there is no shade, the garden is badly laid out, and the scene is one of despairing sterility.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de