Whatever he represents has a character of individuality, and is drawn with an accuracy and minuteness of discrimination which we are not accustomed to expect from mere verbal description.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

I noticed that Van Helsing tied a soft silk handkerchief round her throat.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Emily, now that he had recovered his senses, was about to withdraw from the corridor, when a message from Montoni commanded her to do so, and also that the Count, if he was not already gone, should quit the castle immediately.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

He recovered himself however by a great effort, and after a preparatory cough or two, cried, with a ghastly smile which is still before me, looking at the same time round the walls, ‘Ha!
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

I understand that he represents his mother's view; and that Mrs. Manson Mingott's influence is great throughout her family.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

He who flies from the law shall undergo perpetual banishment; if he return, he may be put to death with impunity by any relative of the murdered man or by any other citizen, or bound and delivered to the magistrates.
— from Laws by Plato

Franz added that his companion, deeply grieved at having been prevented the honor of being presented to the countess during her sojourn in Paris, was most anxious to make up for it, and had requested him (Franz) to remedy the past misfortune by conducting him to her box, and concluded by asking pardon for his presumption in having taken it upon himself to do so.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

A townsman told me that when he met him sauntering through the village in his small close-fitting cap, and whistling to himself, he reminded him of a prince in disguise.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Mrs. O.—“It was his right hand hind leg.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

His right hand went to the salute.
— from The Willing Horse: A Novel by Ian Hay

Smith's friends say of him, that in his own country (South Carolina) he hardly possessed money enough to buy a pig, but when he got to England, after the war, he made out as if the rebels had robbed him of as many flocks and herds as the wild Arabs did Job.
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

As a matter of fact, poor Aline had racked her brains how to dispose of the married Vannecks when she should be ready to take her place in Blunderbore.
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

It was a great relief to Jack Deane to find that he still maintained an honourable name in his native town, and he at once wrote home in a strain he had not before ventured to use, telling his father, to whom he addressed his letter, that he had come to sea for the sake of fighting for the cause of King William, and that he hoped when he returned home to present himself in the rank of an officer.
— from John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

Wen Ho, watchful, for his master was already a day or so beyond the promised date of his return, had started a fire on the hearth and spread a single cover on the table.
— from The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt

But it was too late to draw back, and so he rushed on his enemy, hitting out right and left; and at first Anthony seemed to be getting the worst of it, for, in common with his race, he had no idea how to use his fists, nor had he been long enough at Saint Kirwin’s to have learnt, and the scuffle was enlivened by the encouraging though stifled adjurations of the spectators.
— from Haviland's Chum by Bertram Mitford

Skirrl immediately took up the hammer, grasping the middle of the handle with his left hand, and with his right hand taking up a nail.
— from The Mental Life of Monkeys and Apes: A Study of Ideational Behavior by Robert Mearns Yerkes

That he resented having questions about the Matterhorn catastrophe suddenly sprung upon him I have reason to know, for I have more than once heard him snub, almost savagely, a tactless inquirer.
— from In Good Company Some personal recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips by Coulson Kernahan

Whereupon I hastened to apologize for asking questions which so harshly reminded her of a terrible tragedy.
— from The Lady of the Ice: A Novel by James De Mille

Jahangir for a great part of his reign held his court at Lahore, or at Kabul.
— from A Handbook to Agra and the Taj, Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikri and the Neighbourhood by E. B. (Ernest Binfield) Havell