They swear a surgeon, who has examined the body, and certainly he had the presumption to guess it looks like a murdered body.
— from Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy Volumes 1 to 3 (of 3) by Charles Reade

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

A mule carried my baggage; and the muleteer who guided it looked like a mountebank in a garb rusty like withered leaves.
— from Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Gjendin is liable like all mountain lakes to be suddenly visited by squalls, so that we generally like to paddle pretty near the side, but on this voyage it was not safe to do so; for under the influence of the rain, which was coming down as if it had never done so before, stones and boulders were rattling and crashing down the sides of the lake, and plunging into it, in a most alarming manner; and as far as we could see, the steep black rocks were thickly streaked with white lines, denoting torrents rushing down in places where ordinarily none were to be seen.
— from Three in Norway, by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck