He stood for a while before the equestrian statue of the great elector, who in his snow mantle looked even more majestic and spectral than usual against the pale winter sky.
— from Barbarossa, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

Throckmorton, whose good looks were purely masculine and characteristic, looked even more manly and soldierly by contrast.
— from Throckmorton: A Novel by Molly Elliot Seawell

"The dry water were six foot on the level, er mebbe more, an' some o' the waves up to the tree-tops, an' nobody with me but this 'ere ol' Marier Jane
— from In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller

I could, from long experience, make myself as stealthy and invisible as any Indian
— from The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt

"Well, of course there is bound to be a lot of them small republics which is going to make a play for a little easy money, Mawruss," Abe said, "but the indications is that when the proofs of claims is filed by the alleged creditors, y'understand, there would be a couple of them comma hounds on the Reparation Committee which would reject such claims on the grounds of misplaced semicolons alone.
— from Potash and Perlmutter Settle Things by Montague Glass

Not only all the household and outdoor servants, but all the inmates of the Maidens’ Lodge, excepting Mrs Marcella, and several others, stood up to receive the young ladies as they passed on to the place reserved for them.
— from The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Emily Sarah Holt