From the garden it looked like an arbour.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The swinging lines should vary in thickness along their course, getting darker as they pass certain parts, and gradating into lighter lines at other parts according to the effect desired.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Its fury spent and burnt away, Harmless upon the ground it lay Like a great snake in furious mood By herbs of numbing power subdued.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

This analysis I shall give in later lectures as regards cognition; I have already given it as regards desire.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

“Delightful!” shouted something close by; but no one, except the pewter soldier, saw that it was a piece of the hog's-leather hangings; it had lost all its gilding, it looked like a piece of wet clay, but it had an opinion, and it gave it: “The gilding decays, But hog's leather stays!”
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

This little donation grew in legend like a grain of mustard seed, and [Pg 46] served the purpose of the Roman clergy.
— from A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

God is love, lad, and won’t forsake you.”
— from Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables

At first glance it looked like a vast tapestry of the richest stuffs.
— from The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 by Théophile Gautier

The vegetation was a little more varied and genial than we had yet seen, and some small white flowers, growing in long lines, as if they had been planted, wafted a very sweet fragrance across our breakfast table of white coral sand.
— from Pieces of Eight Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903 by Richard Le Gallienne

It has the appearance of a large long-tailed babbler, and when it runs along the ground it looks like a mongoose.
— from Indian Birds: Being a Key to the Common Birds of the Plains of India by Douglas Dewar

On his outstretched hands, a wreath so gay, It looked like a crown for the Queen of May.
— from The Youth's Coronal by Hannah Flagg Gould