Now, in Mr. Thornton's face the straight brows fell low over the clear, deep-set earnest eyes, which, without being unpleasantly sharp, seemed intent enough to penetrate into the very heart and core of what he was looking at.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

“I have been unfortunate,” she said, “in endeavouring to express my thanks—I am sure it must be so, though I cannot recollect what I said; but would you but stay till my father—till the Lord Keeper comes; would you only permit him to pay you his thanks, and to inquire your name?”
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

" Of course there is faith in the world—faith in this world—and always will be, unless superstition succeeds in every land.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

What can you make of those circumstantial statements we have seen in the papers, of children forming mysterious friendships with ophidians of different species, sharing their food with them, and seeming to be under some subtile influence exercised by those creatures?
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Provincialisms Technical and Bookish Words Foreign Words Words in Present Use Words in their Present Meaning Words of Latin and Saxon Origin General and Specific Use Words that suggest most Synecdoche, Metonymy Care in Choice of Specific Words Avoid Hackneyed Phrases “Fine Writing” In Prose avoid Poetical Words Chapter X.—Figures of Speech Figurative Language Figures based upon Likeness Metaphor Epithet Personification xviii Apostrophe Allegory Simile Figures based upon Sentence Structure Inversion Exclamation Interrogation Climax Irony Metonymy Synecdoche Allusion Hyperbole Exercises in Figures Chapter XI.—Verse
— from English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster