He was, however, very well dressed, and looked like a gentleman.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The round little figure of a child rolled from a doorway and lay laughing almost beneath Cranfield's feet.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

From time to time, also, I stop to listen to the roaring of a tiger, who is wandering round our dwelling and looking longingly at the pigs through their fence of planks and bamboos.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

Let down a lighted lamp, and if it keeps on burning, a man may make the descent without danger.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

“Was he then, indeed, a thief, or a receiver of stolen goods, who affected imbecility and decrepitude, and lived like a beggar that he might carry on his pursuits the more securely?”
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Could tumult awaken the old Dead, Burgundian Charles the Bold might stir from under that Rotunda of his: never since he, raging, sank in the ditches, and lost Life and Diamond, was such a noise heard here.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

She passed now dancing lightly across his memory as she had been that night at the carnival ball, her white dress a little lifted, a white spray nodding in her hair.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

At the sight, I leaned my back against the door and laughed loud and long.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Attend, and speedy thou shalt pass the main: Nigh where a grove with verdant poplars crown'd, To Pallas sacred, shades the holy ground, We bend our way; a bubbling fount distills A lucid lake, and thence descends in rills; Around the grove, a mead with lively green Falls by degrees, and forms a beauteous scene; Here a rich juice the royal vineyard pours; And there the garden yields a waste of flowers.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

explica que los hortelanos viejos de aquella localidad lleguen a quedarse 10 encorvados, hasta tal punto que casi se dan
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

He also very much admired one of his beautiful daughters, and, like lovers at the present day, wanted an excuse for returning; consequently, on going away he would leave one of his silver crescents, which he wore on his breast as a defense and for ornament, to be polished, and when he returned, take the one he left before, and leave another.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

“But with a deriding and loud laughter at them, she caught their bullets in her hands and chew’d them, which was a stronger testimony than her treading water that she was the same that their imagination thought her for to be.”
— from Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

She was perfectly dressed, and looked like a girl in the light frock, with its plain blouse and neat sailor knot.
— from Nell, of Shorne Mills; or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice

During a long life, as much devoted to study as a faithful transaction of the trusts committed to me would permit, no subject has occupied more of my consideration than our relations with all the beings around us, our duties to them, and our future prospects.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

The stately bronze colored namesake of the ancient goddess rose in offended dignity, and looked long at the offender before addressing him.
— from Dorothy South: A Love Story of Virginia Just Before the War by George Cary Eggleston

When I had idly covered about twenty miles, I turned down a little lane and pulled up by the side of a still wood.
— from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates

The sun has gone down a little lower and the shadows of the mountains have lengthened until they stretch almost across the valley; the sounds of life have almost ceased; the child is asleep and the lullaby ended; the tinkling of the bells is scarcely heard; the birds have gone to their nests, and up from the valley has risen a white mist that has hidden and completely covered the last sign of life.
— from Bohemian Society by Lydia Leavitt

This nation might not improperly address him in some such language as the following:—I want from you my own history rather than that of Louis le Gros and Louis Hutin; you tell me, copying from some old, unauthenticated, and carelessly-written chronicle, that when Louis VIII. was attacked by a mortal disease, and lay languishing and powerless, the physicians ordered the more than half-dead monarch to take to his bed a blooming damsel, who might cherish the few sparks of remaining life; and that the pious king rejected the unholy advice with indignation.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 06 by Voltaire

“I mean, it's curious because, as a matter of fact, his wife did die a little later, and he did marry again.”
— from Paul Kelver by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome