A] have a long enough residence.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

His face was like the full moon at mid-autumn; his complexion, like morning flowers in spring; the hair along his temples, as if chiselled with a knife; his eyebrows, as if pencilled with ink; his nose like a suspended gallbladder (a well-cut and shapely nose); his eyes like vernal waves; his angry look even resembled a smile; his glance, even when stern, was full of sentiment.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

He believed that his arguments led either Romeward, or to what ecclesiastics call "Infidelity," and I call Agnosticism.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

Yrs ever MARK Aldrich, meantime, had invited the Clemenses to Ponkapog during the Bermuda absence, and Clemens hastened to send him a line expressing regrets.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 3 (1876-1885) by Mark Twain

,” as Mr. Hardy elects to rechristen Bere Regis, owes the ultimate limb of that compound name to Woodbury Hill, a lofty elevation rising like an exaggerated down, but partly clothed with trees, on the outskirts of Bere Regis.
— from The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Further, it is doubtful if, outside of the Hill holdings, a large enough reserve of commercially available ore is to be obtained in the United States.
— from United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul by Arundel Cotter

‘Tis plain they think his absence looks Extremely rude and queer.
— from Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper, and Other Stories by Anonymous

So Helen May, who was something of a dreamer when Life let her alone long enough, rode home through the moonlight and wove cloth-of-gold from the magic of the night, and with the fairy fabric she clothed Starr—who was, as we know, just an ordinary human being—so that he walked before her, not as a plain, ungrammatical, sometimes profane young man who was helping her home with her goats, but a mysterious, romantic figure evolved somehow out of the vastness in which she lived; who would presently recede again into the mysterious wild whence he had come.
— from Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower

In due time the party were relieved by a couple of men who were sent up with glasses to the roof of the warehouse, after being duly cautioned not to meet with such a fate as that of poor Wing; and as soon as they were stationed Blunt made his appearance, looking eager, refreshed, and ready for anything that might come.
— from Stan Lynn: A Boy's Adventures in China by George Manville Fenn

Not until after the king had bled to death did the herald announce "Let each return to his own country and to his own town.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

As he approached, Lady Earle raised her eyes with a languid smile.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

On the 1st of May a small party of the Twenty-third Ohio met the enemy's horse at Camp Creek, a branch of the Blue-stone, six miles from the crest of Flat-top, and had a lively engagement, repulsing greatly superior numbers.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox