Body rather elongate; scales hexagonal, juxtaposed; no distinct ventral scales.
— from Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics by A. (Albert) Calmette

“It breaks right easy,” said he.
— from Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone by Emerson Hough

Under the intense heat, crowded down in cramped attitudes in the rank, newly dug, poisonous soil of the trenches, the men needed to be relieved every six hours or so.
— from The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt

take up its station on a beam above the hay, and look down with the brightest, roundest eyes she had ever beheld.
— from The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Having furnished himself with money, and with the attendance of three trusty native servants, mounted like himself on Arab horses, and carrying with them no tent, and very little baggage, the anxious Hartley lost not a moment in taking the road to Mysore, endeavouring, in the meantime, by recollecting every story he had ever heard of Hyder's justice and forbearance, to assure himself that he should find the Nawaub disposed to protect a helpless female, even against, the future heir of his empire.
— from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott

As James was nearly forty years of age, as the Hollanders had been rebels ever since he was born, and as the King of Spain had exercised no sovereignty over them within his memory, this was naturally asking too much of him in the name of his new-born alliance with Spain.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

Little Wiedeman was in a state of ecstasy, and has been recounting ever since how he called '"Vive Napoléon!" molto molto duro ,' meaning very loud (his Italian is not very much more correct, you know, than his other languages), and how Napoleon took off his hat to him directly.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A dark mustache aggravated his villainous look, while his black, restless eyes surveyed his surroundings.
— from A Modern Purgatory by Carlo de Fornaro