Donna Ignazia, looking like a saint, came to kneel in the church, but out of my sight.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Now do I look like a man who——does my history suggest that I am a man who deals in trifles, contents himself with the narrow horizon that hems in the common herd, sees no further than the end of his nose?
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Do I look like a robber!
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Do I look like a policeman?
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

" He then told her of that time of his life to which allusion has been made when, tossed about by doubts and difficulties in London, like a cork on the waves, he plunged into eight-and-forty hours' dissipation with a stranger.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

"Do I look like an insane person?"
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The dog is let loose at night to prevent him from endeavouring to communicate with her.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

All this is visible to you by the light of an oil lamp hanging from the ceiling, and by that of an excellent fire, near which I sit in my cloak and bonnet; my muff and umbrella lie on the table, and I am warming away the numbness and chill contracted by sixteen hours’ exposure to the rawness of an October day: I left Lowton at four o’clock a.m., and the Millcote town clock is now just striking eight.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

"There is really no way of telling that the house is haunted, Doris; it looks like any other house, except that it is larger, and was once upon a time much finer than any of the other houses for miles around.
— from The Girl Scouts' Good Turn by Edith Lavell

The brick edifice towered to the height of many stories; a score of names appeared on each side of the doorway in large letters; and many long dark passages and intricate stairs led to the two dingy rooms where those human spiders sat and spun the webs and meshes of the law.
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant

D' I look like a sneak-thief?”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

"Do I look like a man who can re-arrange all his matters?" asked the Major, irritably.
— from The Village by the River by H. Louisa Bedford

With the sun back of her, shining through the folds of her yellow muslin dress and glinting through her light, wavy brown hair, the girl did indeed look like a sprite of the springtime, and, to add to the picture, she held a branch, sweet with apricot blossoms.
— from Sisters by Grace May North

“Do I look like a secret police-agent?”
— from Other People's Money by Emile Gaboriau

Most of their amusements take the form of preparation for what they will have to do in later life, and they put as much energy into their games as an English boy would into his cricket or football.
— from Papuan Pictures by H. M. Dauncey

Now, however, the old serpent lifts his head—Fernando has gone to Congress, and the devil is let loose again for a little season—to give seasoning by his sin to the great sea of gruel of excessive virtue with which the world is inundated.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

He had a small barrel of flour in his storeroom, with such a collection of canned goods and dried as well as smoked meats, that George declared it looked like a young grocery store to him; and privately admitted that he would not care very much if they had been booked to stay the balance of the winter with Uncle Caleb, instead of just a few days.
— from Storm-Bound; or, A Vacation Among the Snow Drifts by Douglas, Alan, Captain

Do I look like a human being again?'
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford