The young ladies exchanged mirthful glances, as the stranger drew nearer, and certainly his extraordinary figure might justify a passing sensation of mirth, if politeness and good feeling had restrained its expression.
— from Love After Marriage; and Other Stories of the Heart by Caroline Lee Hentz
It would be merely a question of how much time one cares to devote to scissors and paste to multiply these examples of Germany’s journalistic and professorial state of mind.
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier
However, this being all the "fortune of war," we jogged along patiently, some on mules, others on waggons, and not a few on the humble jackass, forming on the whole a procession of so motley and varied a character that, by the time we reached our journey's end, we were not unlike Sir John Falstaff's recruits, with whom he was ashamed to enter Coventry.
— from The Adventures of Captain John Patterson With Notices of the Officers, &c. of the 50th, or Queen's Own Regiment from 1807 to 1821 by John Patterson
The trapper, as we are introduced to him, has one leg and both hands paralysed, with just a perceptible sense of motion remaining in the other leg.
— from The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
Otherworld journeys a possible survival of Mystery tradition.
— from From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston
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