In this latter case it might be turned into anything, and he wondered very much whether he would then be able to remember that he had once been a street lamp, and it troubled him exceedingly.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A vast similitude interlocks all, All spheres, grown, ungrown, small, large, suns, moons, planets, All distances of place however wide, All distances of time, all inanimate forms, All souls, all living bodies though they be ever so different, or in different worlds, All gaseous, watery, vegetable, mineral processes, the fishes, the brutes, All nations, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, languages, All identities that have existed or may exist on this globe, or any globe, All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future, This vast similitude spans them, and always has spann'd, And shall forever span them and compactly hold and enclose them.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

he said petulantly, "they look as if they had escaped the deluge by some mistake.
— from The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia E. Barr

If we look at it through her eyes, we shall find this similarity its main drawback.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

Captain Myles Standish turned angrily and saw John and Francis Billington, decorated with streamers of party-coloured rags, which made them look as if they had escaped from a madhouse, leaping and shouting, beating and shooting; John firing his clumsy "Bouncing Bully" in the air as fast as he could load it; Francis filling in the rest of the outrageous performance.
— from A Pilgrim Maid: A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

As to the flat contradiction given to Buckhurst's proceedings in the matter of peace, that statement could scarcely deceive any one who had seen her Majesty's letters and instructions to her envoy.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

In the Irish bardic literature, as in the Homeric epics, chastity formed no part of the masculine ideal either for gods or men.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

It is probable, however, that they first came to Chānda and from here spread north to Lānji, as, if they had entered Bhandāra through Wardha and Nāgpur, some of them would probably have remained in these Districts.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

So easy, natural, and refreshing, had been her slumbers, unalloyed even by those dreams of precipices and avalanches which, long afterwards, haunted her slumbers, that she was the first to open her eyes on the following morning, awaking like an infant that had enjoyed a quiet and healthful repose.
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

He lived always in the high equanimity of spiritual repose, undeterred by good fortune, unruffled by ill fortune.
— from The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London

The wide, fair windows look as if they had expanded to let in the rosy dawn of the Renaissance.
— from A Little Tour in France by Henry James