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

A little later word came to Fort Dobbs that John Long and Robert Gillespie of Salisbury had been shot from ambush and scalped—Long having been pierced with eight bullets and Gillespie with seven.
— from The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson

" Like a radiant gleam of sunshine She glanced upon the sight, A being rare and lovely, With wit and beauty bright.
— from Home Lyrics: A Book of Poems by H. S. (Hannah S.) Battersby

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

As she finished reading the lines, a rift in the breaking clouds let a rich gleam of sunset through, and they caught a brief glimpse of a distant lofty summit, probably Cape Trinity, glowing out in crimson glory, like a great garnet, set amid the grey mountain curves.
— from Down the River to the Sea by Agnes Maule Machar

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

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

—Rictus with conspicuous bristles; nasal fossa almost entirely exposed; tail long and rounded, graduated, or square; caudal muscles and pygostyle well developed; wings rounded and short, first primary a half to a third as long as second; second primary shorter than third; humerus long, [Pg 479] with small external condyle; plumage soft and silky, less so in Phainoptila ; sexes dissimilar, young like adult female; three genera, four species.
— from Phylogeny of the Waxwings and Allied Birds by M. Dale (Martin Dale) Arvey