That one farther on, he of the frowning look and unkempt mustache, is a government official who passes for a most meritorious fellow because he has the courage to speak ill of the business in lottery tickets carried on between Quiroga [150] and an exalted dame in Manila society.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

And so it happens that a woman frequently loves an ugly man, albeit she never loves an unmanly man, because she cannot neutralise his defects.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

And so, the first little [9] master was dead and done for, and instead of his little living body there was a speck of dust in the middle, which became the earth, and on the right hand was a brightness which became the sun, rampaging with all the energy that had come out of the dead little master, and on the left hand a darkness which felt like an unrisen moon.
— from Fantasia of the Unconscious by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The father of all the children fell into the creek!"—which made me feel like an uncommonly moist patriarch.
— from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt

Fat liquors are usually made by dissolving the soap in boiling water and gradually adding the oil with constant agitation.
— from Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett

While the above was in preparation I received a letter from Lord Ashley, urging me to hold out expectations that Government would make further reductions in the Sunday duty, admitting that we “had already done a great deal,” and, oddly enough, inferring therefrom that we could do much more.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

The fat hung on their breasts in great creased folds like an overfed baby's, and in the lantern-light their flesh looked an unhealthy, mottled pink.
— from The Kingdom of Slender Swords by Hallie Erminie Rives

The motive for Louis' attack upon my life.
— from The Betrayal of John Fordham by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon