In 1593, Marlowe made his tragic exit from life, and Greene, Shakespeare's other rival on the popular stage, had preceded Marlowe in an equally miserable death the year before.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

When they must descend and walk away, she was unhappy, feeling like a giant suddenly cut down to ordinary level, at the mercy of the mob.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Concerning the cause and original of this foreign sacrifice I have found small light; unless the figure of her image formed like a galley, show that such devotion arrived from abroad.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

He sat by the piano, with his watch-chain resting in folds, like a golden serpent, on the sea-green protuberance of his waistcoat.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

From many a college and mission station came letters to this hermit of the North, on subjects as various as the writers: the flora of the region, its mineralogy, the Indians and their history, the lost grave of Father Marquette (in these later days said to have been found), the legends of the fur-trading times, the existing commerce of the lakes, the fisheries, and kindred subjects were mixed with discussions kept up with fellow Latin and Greek scholars exiled at far-off Southern stations, with games of chess played by letter, with recipes for sauces, and with humorous skirmishing with New York priests on topics of the day, in which the Northern hermit often had the best of it.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Why is a true and faithful friend like a garden seed?
— from The Handbook of Conundrums by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

After cleaning, rinse the sink by opening the hot-water faucet, letting a generous supply of water flow down the drain-pipe so as to rinse the trap.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

He silently returned the scroll to Sah-luma, who sat very still, thoughtfully stroking the long, bright curl that was twisted round his fingers like a glittering strand of spun glass,—and he felt all at once so unreasonably irritated with his friend, that he was even inclined to find fault with the very grace and beauty of his person, . .
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

At noon on the following day he made his appearance, gaunt and befouled with mud, staggering forward like a galvanized skeleton.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Anyhow, we boys can't help cheering when the mountain shakes off his bonds and stands forth like a giant Scout, telling us to be cheerful and brave and reverent and all that.
— from The Boy Scouts of Bob's Hill A Sequel to 'The Bob's Hill Braves' by Charles Pierce Burton