"There!" cried Endicott, looking triumphantly on his work; "there lies the only Maypole in New England.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The works of Buonamico, then, finding much favour with the Pisans, he was charged by the Warden of the Works of the Campo Santo to make [Pg 146] four scenes in fresco, from the beginning of the world up to the construction of Noah's Ark, and round the scenes an ornamental border, wherein he made his own portrait from the life—namely, in a frieze, in the middle of which, and on the corners, are some heads, among which, as I have said, is seen his own, with a cap exactly like the one that is seen above.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

The earlier Hebrews, as their own records depict them, had a mythology and cultus extremely like that of other Semitic peoples.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

London, where, as he often told his customers, Queen Adelaide had appeared, only the very week before, in a cap exactly like the one he showed them, trimmed with yellow and blue ribbons, and had been complimented by King William on the becoming nature of her head-dress.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

Fruit is imitated in this material, and colored exactly like the original.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

I'm sure I can exhibit literary talents of a high order, once they are encouraged to sprout.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Only experience can fully meet the difficulties of a great operation of this character, and we were (p. 091) without experience; nor can experience like that of British officials ever be expected among us, for neither we nor any other nation has or will have the colonial responsibilities of Great Britain.
— from Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

I have shot a partridge and a henhawk, and caught eighteen large trout out of our brook.
— from The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

Of course Elizabeth, like the other pupils, found that one could not always be sure of the teacher.
— from 'Lizbeth of the Dale by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor

The actual body of the animal, which lies in the centre of the long belt, is very small, and constructed exactly like that of the melon-jelly (Cydippe), which floats above to the left (16).
— from The History of Creation, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or the Development of the Earth and its Inhabitants by the Action of Natural Causes by Ernst Haeckel

How was I, a girl brought up in a land of peace, to know that men could exist like that one from whom you saved Ferdie just now; that to protect the innocent it was necessary to slay the guilty, and right , too?"
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

But they also felt that this would settle it, and as they grasped the cane each looked the other over and then gazed straight into his enemy's eye.
— from Princeton Stories by Jesse Lynch Williams

He had added thousand to thousand, gloating over every increase of his capital, every lucky transaction on 'Change; and now it dawned upon him all at once that in the very pursuit of wealth he had lost the faculty for enjoying it; that he had fallen unawares into the miser's sordid habits—had lost all gusto for pleasure, all delight in life.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon