There was color, light, and life in the boy's face now, vivacity in his manner, and genuine merriment in his laugh.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

She answered the enquiries made of her by Isabel, however, and in which the young man ventured to join, with copious lucidity; and later, in the library at Gardencourt, when she had made the acquaintance of Mr. Touchett (his wife not having thought it necessary to appear) did more to give the measure of her confidence in her powers.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Now placed in order, the Phaeacian train Their cables loose, and launch into the main; At once they bend, and strike their equal oars, And leave the sinking hills and lessening shores.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

In needs unlike his giant kind: Dúshaṇ and Khara, brave and bold Whose fame by every tongue is told: Their might by mine is far surpassed; But when, O best of men, I cast These fond eyes on thy form, I see My chosen love and lord in thee.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

All our data, both in physics and psychology, are subject to psychological causal laws; but physical causal laws, at least in traditional physics, can only be stated in terms of matter, which is both inferred and constructed, never a datum.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Elliston, according to the Memoirs of him by George Raymond, which have Lamb's phrase, "Joyousest of once embodied spirits," for motto, opened a circulating library at Leamington in the name of his sons William and Henry, and served there himself at times.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

He was clad like a logger, in thick mackinaws and heavy boots, and the texture of his garments was appropriate to the temperature, the weather.
— from The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair

Luther’s misinterpretation necessarily led him to make a cleavage between Christian life and life in the world.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

THE BRIDE A MARRIAGE CHARM "LIKE A LAVEROCK IN THE LIFT" MY OWEN DORIS: A PASTORAL "HE'D NOTHING BUT HIS VIOLIN" LOVE'S CALENDAR HOME TWO LOVERS THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

"It was beautiful; but outside, the poor man's child, hollow-eyed and sad, crouched that balmy morning on the heated pavement, pressing his pale face close against the iron rails, looking and longing, as only the children of poverty can look and long, into that forbidden Eden!
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

A species of animal (Alima hyalina ?) was caught resembling a scorpion, having six legs, three on each side; the first pair of legs were provided with claws, like a lobster; its tail exactly resembled that of a scorpion; the sac or bag near the extremity of the tail was of a light red colour, and it tried to strike with its tail, as if for the purpose of stinging.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George, Sir

"If from your home you should start southward, as you crossed land after land in the same way, you would begin to see that life was failing and the harmonies of the planet replaced by the discord of lifeless forces—storming, crushing, grinding.
— from The Doctor's Christmas Eve by James Lane Allen

My rangatira , then a very old man, started off alone, and without saying a word to any one, took his way through the forest which extended the whole way between his village and the enemy, crept like a lizard into the enemy's village, and then, shouting his war cry, dashed amongst a number of people he saw sitting together on the ground, and who little expected such a salute.
— from Old New Zealand: A Tale of the Good Old Times And a History of the War in the North against the Chief Heke, in the Year 1845 by Frederick Edward Maning