After seeing several, we at last had one offered to us that we liked, and bought; he was of the last-described species; his body long and narrow, his legs very short and crooked, and his feet enormous, big enough for a dog of three times the size; his tail was long, and dangled down in an ungainly sort of way; his head was small, and his nose much elongated and pointed; his eyes small and sparkling, and his ears rather soft and long.
— from Live Toys; Or, Anecdotes of Our Four-Legged and Other Pets by Emma Davenport

Dr. Macadam, the Secretary, denies that he ever received such a letter.
— from Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria by William John Wills

The will in which he surprised so many persons by remembering them—"one of the only purely beautiful wills I have ever read," said a lawyer,—showed how much he cared at heart for many of us to whom he had rarely made express professions of affection.
— from Memories and Studies by William James

His earnest remonstrances succeeded at least so far that Pico, who, like Galileo afterwards, had been relegated to a villa in the neighbourhood of Florence, was left unmolested in the city.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

And Ralph sat down on the trellised portico, stretching out his elegant rosetted shoes, and laughing.
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

186 At any other place in this country I should have extremely regretted such a loss of time, but here I derived much instruction and entertainment from my intercourse with two highly-informed men, Mr. Thomas Say and Mr. Lesueur, who, during my two months' illness, gave me constant proofs of kindness, and endeavoured to make our time pass agreeably and usefully.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von