In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

I turned to a scowling face, and silent, eloquent lips.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Father and son, extremely like each other, looking silently on at the morning traffic in Fleet-street, with their two heads as near to one another as the two eyes of each were, bore a considerable resemblance to a pair of monkeys.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Not for a moment did he think that Miss Bostwick might not jump at the chance to change her place of residence from a South End lodging house to the Ball homestead overlooking Big Wreck Cove and the sea.
— from Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod by James A. Cooper

In fact, they went farther and suggested even larger apparatuses, but this idea has not matured.
— from Lightships and Lighthouses by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

Accordingly we have admitted only a few of this kind, and have rejected a great many, as, for example, Owen's frigid and spiteful epigram: Look, not a hair remains on your bright skull.
— from An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Pierre Nicole

Above the landing-place frowned a steep eminence largely composed of slag and other refuse from the mill.
— from Homestead A Complete History of the Struggle of July, 1892, between the Carnegie-Steel Company, Limited, and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers by Arthur Gordon Burgoyne

Miss Hunsden was too proud to sue for her favor, and Sir Everard loved her too sensitively to expose her to a possible rebuff.
— from The Baronet's Bride; Or, A Woman's Vengeance by May Agnes Fleming

The success of Muldoon's famous human repair-shop depends entirely upon building up by proper food and strenuous exercise long-neglected organs and faculties.
— from Defenseless America by Hudson Maxim

There were six men near the office, bronzed mountaineers, men of guns and grit, men who had spent their lives facing danger; but, when it came to facing a skunk, each looked at Nimrod as one would at a crazy man and had important business elsewhere.
— from A Woman Tenderfoot by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

On the 19th, in compliance with the wishes of the French Admiral, Sir Edmund Lyons decided on despatching a squadron, under the orders of Sir Houston Stewart, to co-operate with the French squadron under Rear-Admiral Pellion in protecting the left flank of the Allied troops who set out on a reconnaissance towards Cherson.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir