The black curls (nothing like Lady Audley's feathery ringlets, but heavy clustering locks, that clung about your slender brown throat), the red and pouting lips, the nose inclined to be retrousse , the dark complexion, with its bright crimson flush, always ready to glance up like a signal light in a dusky sky, when you came suddenly upon your apathetic cousin—all this coquettish espiegle , brunette beauty was thrown away upon the dull eyes of Robert Audley, and you might as well have taken your rest in the cool drawing-room at the Court, instead of working your pretty mare to death under the hot September sun.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Then Mathurin got up like a sailor whose watch is over.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

súgut n edges all around s.t. Gitamnan ug lubi ang súgut sa uma, The farm had coconut trees planted all around the borders.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Of course if they ran a tramline along the North Circular from the cattlemarket to the quays value would go up like a shot.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The flakes came down so thickly that from the sitting-room windows I could not see beyond the windmill—its frame looked dim and grey, unsubstantial like a shadow.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Instead of working as of old, the inhabitants gave up labour and shouted to one another.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 17, 1887 by Various

This very often happens when Her Majesty gets up late, as she always says that we do not make enough noise to wake her.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling

The Rest Harrow usually lies close to the ground, but you may find it growing upright like a small bush.
— from Flowers, Shown to the Children by C. E. Smith

"Do you want me to go up like a skyrocket?
— from The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

He darted the look; he also got up longings; and so he felt himself comfortably enough insured for such a successful love affair.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

Then we may know, from analogy, that they do so in obedience to a general, uniform law; and so I might say with confidence, if our inquiry stopped [Pg 50] here, it will ever be found by those who may hereafter examine them.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

But the grass of those old paddocks grows unkempt like a shock head of hair.
— from Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean

But pretty soon Zeb began to grow uneasy like, and screwed up his ugly nose, like as if he was took with the pangs, and the doctor gone a courtin'.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

The Governor used lofty and somewhat threatening language, assuring Marolles that he was at that moment in possession, not only of Namur but of Antwerp citadel; and the deputies accordingly departed, having accomplished very little by their journey.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

Grant us leave And safe conveyance, that we may return Unto our master.
— from The House of Rimmon: A Drama in Four Acts by Henry Van Dyke