Tom looked at his legs, but left it uncertain whether he preferred his moral advantages to a more vicious length of limb and reprehensible gentility of trouser.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

This din of musketry on the right, growing like a released genie of sound, expressed and emphasized the army's plight.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

O see his sunlike forehead shine With emerald tints and almandine, While pearly light and roseate glow Of shells adorn his neck below.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And in those days, just round the corner in Billiter Street, one of the East India Company's warehouses survived, a sombre relic among the new limestone and red granite offices, a massive archway in its centre leading, it could be believed, to an enclosure of night left by the eighteenth century, and forgotten.
— from London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

Mr. R.—I believe there are some rich ladies and rich gentlemen on the platform.
— from Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects by Dwight Lyman Moody

When Louis XVI., in the words of the edict, ‘convinced by the uselessness of a century of persecutions, and rather from necessity than sympathy,’ granted at last a royal grace of toleration, Cassagnas was still Protestant; and to a man, it is so to this day.
— from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Surely never a communication from the dearest friend I had ever had was quite so eagerly seized and devoured as was this brief note, which came to me like a refreshing glimpse of the world I had known.
— from Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891 by Almira Stillwell Cole

There we found something like a riot going on, shouting and noises of all sorts, and the town full of drunken soldiers.
— from A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a Confederate officer by Myrta Lockett Avary

In protecting commercial interests our consuls have necessarily had to encounter increased labors and responsibilities growing out of the war.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Or, again: “As the new-born child, like a ripe grain of seed dropped from the mother plant has life in itself, and as it spontaneously develops life [204] in progressive connection with the common life whole ; so activity and action are the first phenomena of his awakening life.
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

A mandarin came through in a chair of green lacquer and rich gold ornament, supercilious, fat, carried by four bearers and followed by imposing officials who wore robes of black and red and hats with red plumes.
— from In Red and Gold by Samuel Merwin

They numbered nearly twenty, under the command of a young lieutenant, a recent graduate of West Point.
— from The Young Ranchers; Or, Fighting the Sioux by Edward Sylvester Ellis

The sun had gone down in red fire behind the Atlantic, and there was still left a rich glow of crimson in the west, while overhead, in the pale yellow of the sky, some filmy clouds of rose color lay motionless.
— from McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey