187 In Latin the expression of quality or description is very similar.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

“The day is vulgar,” said he, “and deserves only a closed shutter.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

At noon, it being washing day, I toward White Hall, and stopped and dined all alone at Hercules Pillars, where I was mighty pleased to overhear a woman talk to her counsel how she had troubled her neighbours with law, and did it very roguishly and wittily.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Now let us but bend the figure in a slight curve, as at C, and destroy its vertical direction, partly cover the disc of the sun so as to destroy the complete circle, and all this is immediately altered, our 151 calm evening has become a windy one, our lines now being expressive of some energy.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

At night I could see her shadow on the walls of her apartment; by day I viewed her in her flower-garden, or riding in the park with her usual companions.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The bright queen was dressed in virgin crystal of Tutia wrought damaskwise, and beset with large diamonds.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by François Rabelais

Made my drawings in various media.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Dissolve the dye in vinegar—the dye bath should be warm.
— from Practical Basketry by Anna A. Gill

As I stood looking wistfully over the gate, alternately at the inviting vista of the green-embroidered path, and then at the grim notice over my head, "All trespassers prosecuted," a young man came up the ride, dressed in velveteen jacket and leather gaiters, sufficiently bedrabbled with mud.
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley

With that divine inspiration vouchsafed alone to faith and fervent love, she saw with piercing insight the essential things to be done.
— from Paris and Its Story by Thomas Okey

He asked me whether he had mentioned, in any of the papers of the Rambler , the description in Virgil of the entrance into Hell, with an application to the press; 'for (said he) I do not much remember them.'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

At this place, and a few days only before the memorable battle ( sic ) of Valley Forge, General Washington presented him with his portrait, now in my possession; and highly do I value it as a memento of that noble man and the glories of those days.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) by John James Audubon

The commonest is the three-fold division into vegetative, animal and rational.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

Writing a letter in the Postoffice one day I ventured to take up this matter with the postmaster.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser