In a few minutes’ time we were stepping out sharply across the great cultivated plain or lake bed, framed like a vast emerald in its setting of frowning cliff, and had another opportunity of wondering at the extraordinary nature of the site chosen by these old people of Kôr for their capital, and at the marvellous amount of labour, ingenuity, and engineering skill that must have been brought into requisition by the founders of the city to drain so huge a sheet of water, and to keep it clear of subsequent accumulations.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

White is remarkably fine looking, and very evidently a born gentleman; the idea of putting us in the same bed was hardly to be tolerated; and yet, there we were, and but the one bed for us, and that, by the way, was in the same room occupied by the other members of the family.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

G. Leaves quite large, about 1 ft. long; a very erect growing tree 8.
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

To the long distrust and the later developed abhorrence, the day had brought forth a new fierce lust after vengeance, exasperated now the might of his hands, superhuman, had done such terrible work.
— from The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

Her words flowed like a volcanic eruption.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

Still again, as she listened, she felt like a veritable eagle, invisible, poised high in ethereal emptiness, watching hungrily a dim and far-off sign of earthly life and movement.
— from The Wire Tappers by Arthur Stringer

Scalda ogni fredda lingua ardente voglia, E di sterili fa l'alme feconde.
— from Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Henry Francis Cary

The rider's hair was fluttering like a victorious emblem, his eyes fixed with a wild intensity.
— from Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

I'll vote for a feller like Austen Vane every time, if he'll run, and I know other folks that will."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Quite young, rather fat, fairly pretty, she strummed her guitar and sang, rolling her eyes fiercely, like a virtuoso executing feats of difficulty.
— from Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti

The leaves are fairly large and very evenly serrated.
— from Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. (Ernest Thomas) Cook