But they found it impossible, for the thorns held fast together, as if they had hands, and the youths were caught in them, could not get loose again, and died a miserable death.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

His face, however, had expanded under the influence of good living, and a disposition remarkable for resignation; and its bold, fleshy curves had so far extended beyond the limits originally assigned them, that unless you took a full view of his countenance in front, it was difficult to distinguish more than the extreme tip of a very rubicund nose.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

In one of the blind animals, namely, the cave-rat (Neotoma), two of which were captured by Professor Silliman at above half a mile distance from the mouth of the cave, and therefore not in the profoundest depths, the eyes were lustrous and of large size; and these animals, as I am informed by Professor Silliman, after having been exposed for about a month to a graduated light, acquired a dim perception of objects.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

You gibber like an ape, dear," said the woman to him.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

Thou art a good lad, and a deserving; thy distresses shall end, for the day of thy reward is come.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

With its last big note; And your eyes, they were green and grey Like an April day, But lit into amethyst
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Gowling, lamenting (as a dog in grief).
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

As stated here by Pliny, they generally lived at a distance from large towns, in communities which bore a great resemblance to the monkish societies of later times.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Do not go labouring at a drawing when your mind is not working; you are not doing any good, and probably are spoiling any good you have already done.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

All through October and November they made the trips regularly, making the round every six days, which gave one day of rest at the cabin on the Gray Loon and another day in the cabin at the end of the trail.
— from Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood

Helen wriggled her glowing head from the tender prison of his hands, looked up into his sharp, tired face, clapped her own petal-like little palms, and said with a gurgling laugh and a dancing wink of her fearless blue eyes, “And you—Daddy—are just like a flower, too!”
— from The Invisible Foe A Story Adapted from the Play by Walter Hackett by Louise Jordan Miln

The child had heard indeed of the death of his father, and how, in the Indian station, a fever had taken him, so that though not in action he had yet died as a soldier; and hearing of the "resurrection of the just," he could think of him as still abroad in the world, somehow, for his protection—a grand, though perhaps rather terrible figure, in beautiful soldier's things, like the figure in the picture of Joshua's Vision in the Bible—and of that, round which the mourners moved so softly, and afterwards with such solemn singing, as but a worn-out garment left at a deserted lodging.
— from Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Walter Pater

Then, with the same silent mirth distorting his features, the fireman thrust his head into the engine-room and said: "He tho't he'd go, lad; and A doon't think he'll coom back in a hurry."
— from Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Various

Where, though 'twas August, he sat him down by the fire, and fell a gossiping with Nuta—such was the maid's name—and told her that he was a gentleman by procuration,(7) and had more florins than could be reckoned, besides those that he had to give away, which were rather more than less, and that he could do and say such things as never were or might be seen or heard forever, good Lord! and a day.
— from The Decameron, Volume II by Giovanni Boccaccio

"I guess looking after Amy does keep his time pretty well filled up," chuckled the old man, much amused.
— from Light-Fingered Gentry by David Graham Phillips