And the next day Elizabeth looked like some one who had been unbandaged and was letting out breath that for a long time had been held in.
— from Kitty Canary: A Novel by Kate Langley Bosher

p. 268, and Lasinio, Dante e le Lingue semitiche in the Rivista Orientale (Flor.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt

And this girl over on the left here,—“You observe,” said Bonaventure, “I situate the lambs on the left and the kids on the right,”—this little, slender crescent of human moonlight, with her hair in two heavy, black, down-falling plaits, meek, drooping eyes, long lashes, soft childish cheeks and full throat, was Sidonie Le Blanc.
— from Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable

Si dolcemente, e lui languir sì fatto, Che parea già negli ultimi sospiri Esalar l'alma; in guisa di Baccante Gridando, e percotendosi il bel petto, Lasciò cadersi in sul giacente corpo, E giunse viso a viso, e bocca a bocca.
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg