The police were young men with deeply bronzed faces, dressed in smart khaki uniform with broad Stetson hats of the same color.
— from Prescott of Saskatchewan by Harold Bindloss

When the young is fully developed it simply kicks the coffin to pieces in which its mother interred it, and, burrowing its way up to the sunshine, enters on the pleasures and pains of an independent existence from earliest infancy--that is, if a species born into the world in full possession of all the wisdom of the ancients, can be said ever to know infancy.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

When he informed her that the breakfast-room, already not too light, was underneath the proposed balcony, which would further darken it, she kept an angelic silence.
— from The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Arnold Bennett

The adverbs are, first of all, divided into nine classes; and the ninth, consisting 'of various logical adverbs used to modify discourse,' is further divided into six kinds—the significative, the concessive, the dubitative, the corrective, the affirmative, the negative; a division which, if logically tested, will be found as faulty as the much-criticised categories of Aristotle.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

"The question is whether 'The Maiden Knight' fellow does it," said Kenby, taking duck and pease from the steward at his shoulder.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 1 by William Dean Howells

In him I saw that his distinction was passive and resided largely in his drab spats, but hers I beheld active, positive, as she marched my way with the tall cane that helped her steps, herself tall in proportion, with a head, ashen gray, held high, and a straight well-fitted figure dressed in such keeping that there was nothing for the eye to dwell on in her various black.
— from London Films by William Dean Howells

I got to the door and into the front room before Phrony did; and when she see me at the bureau she gave one awful yell and fell down in some kind of fit.
— from The Wooing of Calvin Parks by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

those Diviners , which are by the Law forbidden, distinguished into seven kinds ; not because there were no other, but they were the most usual.
— from Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews by Thomas Goodwin

It would be better for Dysart if she knew, he said to himself.
— from The Wizard's Daughter, and Other Stories by Margaret Collier Graham