Elizabeth Russell was a nice, clever little critter, and Mrs. Ned was a nice woman, too.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

‘The dale (in the Desert) was wild and monotonous, nothing but sandstone rock, the surfaces of which were burned as black as coals, but turned into burning golden yellow at every crack, and every ravine, whence a number of sand-rivulets, like fire-streams from black dross, ran and filled the valleys.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

"He might have said something nicer than that," Ellen remarked, with a natural protest against this undue familiarity.
— from The Colossus: A Novel by Opie Percival Read

"The sweet influences of Pleiades," of the stars of spring,—nowhere sweeter than among the pine-clad slopes of the hills of Sparta and Arcadia, when he snows of their higher summits, beneath the sunshine of April, fell into fountains, and rose into clouds; and in every ravine was a newly awakened voice of waters,—soft increase of whisper among its sacred stones; and on every crag its forming and fading veil of radiant cloud; temple above temple, of the divine marble that no tool can pollute, nor ruin undermine.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin

[443] , were indigenous, and he describes the type as also Laotian—straight eyes rather wide apart, nose broad at base, forehead arched, superciliary arches prominent, thick lips, pointed chin, olive colour, slightly bronzed and darker than in the Lao country; the men ill-favoured, the young women with pleasant features, and some with very beautiful eyes.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

We have now been absent thirty-four days, and as we cached some of our supply on Yellowstone lake for Mr. Everts' relief, we are now on short rations, but the fish we dried while camped on Yellowstone lake are doing good service.
— from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 by Nathaniel Pitt Langford

He enjoyed his work, and had the new experience of establishing relations with a number of children, with whom he soon became a favourite.
— from Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

It is difficult, when one enters the elegant rooms which are now known as Kettner’s, to call up its small beginnings.
— from Bohemian Days in Fleet Street by William Mackay

All had descended except Rawson, when a noise was heard in the room above, as of a door opening.
— from Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War by William Henry Giles Kingston

Roads to the right led to the advanced trenches, empty roads which at night are thronged with men going to the front or coming back.
— from Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart