The lama, very straight and erect, the deep folds of his yellow clothing slashed with black in the light of the parao fires precisely as a knotted tree-trunk is slashed with the shadows of the low sun, addressed a tinsel and lacquered ruth which burned like a many-coloured jewel in the same uncertain light.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

-ir n one whose job is to set up the ball for the spiker.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I've destroyed my only chance.” “Not your only chance, Thames,” returned Jack, in the same undertone; “but your best.
— from Jack Sheppard: A Romance, Vol. 1 (of 3) by William Harrison Ainsworth

The lama, very straight and erect, the deep folds of his yellow clothing slashed with black in the light of the parao fires precisely as a knotted tree-trunk is slashed with the shadow of the long sun, addressed a tinsel and lacquered ruth which burned like a many-coloured jewel in the same uncertain light.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

The Spring day when he was expected to come home she had found her joy impossible to support under the eyes of the servant and the farm-men, for she had grown very sly about her fellow-men, and knew that it was best to hide happiness lest someone jealous should put out their hand to destroy it.
— from The Judge by Rebecca West

The first who entered--nearly a minute before any of the rest--was certainly not the sort of being the persons assembled within expected to see, for the door only gave admission to a beautiful girl of some nineteen or twenty years of age, with her rich, clustering hair, wet with the rain, falling from its bands about her face and shoulders, and with a look of laughing, yet half-rueful, satisfaction on her face as she turned to one of those behind, saying in a sweet, though jesting tone, "Good faith, my friend, if thou art as wet as I am, the lowliness of the roof will not mar your joy in taking shelter under it."
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

My cousin, Miss Bishop, Mr. Rayburn Miller.” Miss Bishop bowed indifferently, and looked as if she still saw no justification in the slight under question.
— from Abner Daniel: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

In the afternoon, taking with them a supply of flour, they commenced their journey, intending to sleep upon the road, and leave us to overtake them on the following day.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

Shammai , an eminent Jewish rabbi of the time of Herod, who held the position of supreme judge in the Sanhedrim under the presidency of Hillel ( q. v .), and whose narrow, rigid orthodoxy and repressive policy became the leading principles of his school, "the House of Shammai," which, however, carried the system to a pitch of fanatical zeal not contemplated by its originator.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Young L—— and I jumped into the surf up to our waists and waded ashore.
— from What I Saw in Kaffir-Land by Stephen Lakeman

Janissaries in their showy uniform swaggered along, soldiers of the line, merchants, and peasants, while hamals staggering along under enormous burdens swung from bamboo poles, made their way, keeping up a constant shout to the crowd to clear the road.
— from In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty