Mordaunt followed the carriage, and when he had watched it drive beneath the sombre arches he went and stationed himself under a wall over which the shadow was extended, and remained motionless, amidst the moldings of Jean Goujon, like a bas-relievo, representing an equestrian statue.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

At the end of the sprigs stand the flowers, made of five white, great, broad-pointed leaves, nicked in the middle with some white threads also; after which comes the fruit, of a brownish green colour, being ripe, bearing a crown as it were on the top, which were the five green leaves; and being rubbed off, or fallen away, the head of the fruit is seen to be somewhat hollow.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

It was built mostly of a sort of dull rose-colored stone, with here and there some clear white houses; and it lay abroad among the green groves and gardens like a broken rosary of pink coral.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"It is, indeed, of a goodly length and breadth," replied Eda; "almost too extensive to be held by one individual.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Keep a good lookout and be ready to move at once.
— from A Boy Trooper with Sheridan by Stanton P. Allen

Men seek not so fondly to be restored even in death to their native land, when they have deliberately resolved on subjecting it to the miseries of conquest by a foreign, in Grecian language, a barbarian race.
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

But for the prompt and judicious action of the Liberian Executive, aided by the American Minister Resident, the following would presently have been the situation: A British gunboat in the harbor, a British officer in command of the frontier force, and a large number of British subjects among the enlisted men, a British official in charge of the Liberian customs, a British officer in command of the Liberian gunboat Lark , a British regiment in the streets of Monrovia.”
— from Liberia: Description, History, Problems by Frederick Starr

All the time the singing was growing louder, and both remained, quite sure that it was the voice of a woman.
— from The Scouts of the Valley by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

“You mustn’t give Lu a bad reputation,” said Jane reprovingly.
— from The Mystery of Arnold Hall by Helen M. Persons

In some cases of changes in the level of the ground, large areas being raised in one place and lowered in another, rivers take new courses, and their old courses are completely obliterated.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

The second is wholly different in note, brimming over with the exuberance of the Celtic imagination, and fresh as the breath of spring which inspires it: ’Tis the time o’ the year, if the quicken-bough be staunch, The green, like a breaker, rolls steady up the branch, And surges in the spaces, and floods the trunk, and heaves
— from The Younger American Poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse