“John enters like a brother into my happiness,” continued Mr. Knightley, “but he is no complimenter; and though I well know him to have, likewise, a most brotherly affection for you, he is so far from making flourishes, that any other young woman might think him rather cool in her praise.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

“How splendid!” said Peter; “that's just exactly like a book, isn't it, Mother?”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Broad smooth waters how beautiful they were, dotted with craft similar to ourn and freighted with happy voyagers dartin' here and there, and some of the boats wuz the queerest shapes, one on 'em looked jest exactly like a big white swan, and there wuz one, if you'll believe it, that looked like a sea serpent, I wouldn't have rid in it for a dollar bill, though Josiah said he'd love to tell Deacon Henzy that he'd straddled the old sea serpent and rid to shore on it.
— from Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

"I thought you said it was a poem," she said, with cutting emphasis; "but it sounds just exactly like a bill of fare."
— from Half a Dozen Girls by Anna Chapin Ray

A dexterous touch, and from the little gaping lips carved by the penknife’s point in the muscle of the back rolled out a flattened piece of lead with jagged edges like a battered shilling, but a trifle thicker.
— from An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) by David Christie Murray

If ye knew of a mean ugly game bein' put up ag'inst some poor little kid ye would jist explode like a barrel of dynamite, wouldn't ye?"
— from The Long Patrol: A Tale of the Mounted Police by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

The children at play, swinging, jumping, etc. Lena and Birdie at play.
— from The Story in Primary Instruction: Sixteen Stories and How to Use Them by H. Avis (Hannah Avis) Perdue

“Le patriarche la fist venir en Jerusalem, et li acheta bonne maison de pierre.
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

It was over the corpses of these opponents that the Jesuits entered Lucerne and began to teach, with passion still seething on every side.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe

Then we made scrambled egg and porridge, and baked some custard in the oven, and it was just exactly like a big custard in the big cups at home.
— from Five Minute Stories by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards