Gryphon Change lobsters, and retire in same order.
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

One cannot love a reserved person.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

But Helena, the aged mother of Constantine, lamented and revenged the untimely fate of her grandson Crispus; nor was it long before a real or pretended discovery was made, that Fausta herself entertained a criminal connection with a slave belonging to the Imperial stables.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Birthwort, Asarabacca, Aron, Waterflag, white Dittany, Asphodel, Garlick, Centaury the less, Cyperus long and round, Costus, Capers, Calamus Aromaticus, Dittany of Crete, Carrots, Eringo, Fennel, Parsly, Smallage, Grass, Elicampane, Peony, Valerian, Knee-holly, &c.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

In a Western city lived a rich and childless old foreigner and his wife; and in their family was a comely young girl—sort of friend, sort of servant.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

106 Twenty-two satraps (they styled themselves patriots) were tempted by the wealth and honors of a new reign: to the soldiers, the heir of Chosroes promised an increase of pay; to the Christians, the free exercise of their religion; to the captives, liberty and rewards; and to the nation, instant peace and the reduction of taxes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

One brute had an eye out; another had his tail sawed off close, like a rabbit, and was proud of it; another had a bony ridge running from his neck to his tail, like one of those ruined aqueducts one sees about Rome, and had a neck on him like a bowsprit; they all limped, and had sore backs, and likewise raw places and old scales scattered about their persons like brass nails in a hair trunk; their gaits were marvelous to contemplate, and replete with variety under way the procession looked like a fleet in a storm.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The story gives an account of the life and adventures of Publius Cornelius Lentulus, a Roman boy, who fought in Cæsar’s campaigns and shared in his triumph.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The eight responses came like a rolling fire from every part of the room, and the laughter that followed was the more uproarious because poor Father Goriot stared at the others with a puzzled look, like a foreigner trying to catch the meaning of words in a language which he does not understand.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Like colours of the dawn or evening red; Their aims are crooked like a river’s course; Inconstant are they as the lightning flash; Like serpents, they deserve no confidence ( Kathās.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Some of those who formed this company were to become duellists in the fight over the treasures arranged upon the shelves round the room, for the fight for the [167] chief lots always resolved itself into a duel in the end.
— from Prices of Books An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods by Henry B. (Henry Benjamin) Wheatley

Already the facile tip of her tongue seemed fairly loaded and cocked like a revolver with all the approximate "Yes, sirs," "No, sirs," that she thought she should probably need.
— from The White Linen Nurse by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

His scarlet coat, lace and ruffles were torn and disordered.
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

There was a time when, according to his own statement in the present work, Dr. Lightfoot "accepted the Curetonian letters as representing the genuine Ignatius;" [15:1] and, of course, when he regarded as forgeries the four others which he now acknowledges.
— from The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot by W. D. (William Dool) Killen

Corymb , like a raceme except that the lower flowers have longer stems, making the cluster somewhat flat-topped; the outer flowers bloom first.
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

Cuno, language and race.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Ten miles farther, and in a northwesterly direction, was Cliff Lake, another remarkable sheet of water having a total length of three miles and a breadth of half a mile, in whose azure depths 1,400 feet of line failed to reach bottom.
— from Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana by Robert Vaughn

" The citizen of Accomac saw that his falsehood was discovered, my boy, and returned to the bosom of his family cursing like a rifled parson.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

Mine ain't that way," and proved her statement by laying a cheek like a rose-leaf against his.
— from Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith