M. Candidus in nauta turpis color: æquoris unda / 10 Debet et a radiis sideris esse niger —A fair complexion is a disgrace in a sailor; he ought to be tanned, from the spray of the sea and the rays of the sun.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The rain was descending in torrents, a regular Normandy rain, which looked as if it were being poured out by some furious person, a slanting rain, opaque as a curtain, which formed a kind of wall with diagonal stripes, and which deluged everything, a rain such as one frequently experiences in the neighborhood of Rouen, which is the watering-pot of France.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

A long look from dark eyes, a riddling sentence to be woven and woven on the church’s looms.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The lofty forehead, the aquiline nose, the well-marked eyebrows, the decided chin, the fine dark eyes, all recalled Sir Philip to her mind, and she said to herself that when his hair became silvery too, the likeness between him and his mother would be more striking still.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

"When Dickens entered a room," said one who knew him well, "it was like the sudden kindling of a big fire, by which every one was warmed.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

When gold is wanted for export, the bank is often glad to sell bar gold or double eagles at rates somewhat more advantageous to the exporter than would be the export of sovereigns; this the bank can afford to do, for the expense of coining sovereigns to replace those exported is thus saved, while the exporter, if he can get bar gold on the same basis as sovereigns, avoids the losses of abrasion.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

This exception was a large, athletic, powerful Indian, rather rising of six feet, around whose waist was a finely worked wampum belt, over whose right shoulder, in a transverse direction, extended a red scarf, carelessly tied under the left arm, and in whose nose and ears were large, heavy rings, denoting him to be either a chief or one in command.
— from Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life by Emerson Bennett

And the following morning, being duly empowered, Antoine Riczi sailed for England in company with the Earl of Worcester, and upon Saint Richard's day the next ensuing was, at Eltham, as proxy of Jehane, married in his own person to the bloat King of England.
— from Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

The working people were often driven into riot and disorder by the desperation of extreme distress; which disorder was often increased by the discreditable espionage and ruthless severities employed to crush political discussion among the populace.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

'I had rather cut down expenses all round,' said Emmeline, 'than have our home upset in this way.
— from The Paying Guest by George Gissing

The duenna entered, and remained standing before her master.
— from The Pearl of Lima: A Story of True Love by Jules Verne

In this connection it is a significant fact that in young hybrids between two distinct species the early stages of development, especially as regards symmetry and regional specifications, are exclusively or predominantly maternal in character, but the male influence becomes more and more apparent as development progresses until the final degree of intermediacy is attained.
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer