Lúmuy (lumuy) ang buktun sa way trabáhu, One who doesn’t work has soft arms.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The door lanterns shed brilliant rays from where they were suspended; while on either side the lanterns, of uniform colours, propped upright, emitted a lustrous light as bright as day.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“If more than seven slaves together are found in any road without a white person, twenty lashes a piece; for visiting a plantation without a written pass, ten lashes; for letting loose a boat from where it is made fast, thirty-nine lashes for the first offense; and for the second, shall have cut off from his head one ear; for keeping or carrying a club, thirty-nine lashes; for having any article for sale, without a ticket from his master, ten lashes; for traveling in any other than the most usual and accustomed road, when going alone to any place, forty lashes; for traveling in the night without a pass, forty lashes.”
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

[443] Chrysostom pleads farther yet, that they are more than mad, very beasts, stupefied and void of common sense: For how (saith he) shall I know thee to be a man, when thou kickest like an ass, neighest like a horse after women, ravest in lust like a bull, ravenest like a bear, stingest like a scorpion, rakest like a wolf, as subtle as a fox, as impudent as a dog?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"At your age other young men have a good social position, and just look at yourself: a lazy lout, a beggar, living on your father!"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The little island, on which grew the three acacias, lay at a short distance, looking like a bouquet rising from the lake.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Caniveau was slapping his thigh, Cesaire Horlaville snapped his whip, the priest laughed like a braying donkey, the teacher cackled as though he were sneezing, and the two women were giving little screams of joy, like the clucking of hens.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Tibertus complied, and told his patron, at that time one of the most flourishing and powerful princes of Italy, that he should suffer great want, and die at last like a beggar in the common hospital of Bologna.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

He could see the green tops looking like a bed of moss when a wind-eddy thinned the cloud.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

the green quiet plain extending away from the gate to the horizon; the western sky flushed with sunset hues, and the herd of four or five hundred cattle trotting homewards with loud lowings and bellowings, raising a great cloud of dust with their hoofs, while behind gallop the herdsmen urging them on with wild cries.
— from Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

To suppose that a civilian First Lord is bound to be mischievous if he is energetic, and certain to be harmless if, in administering the navy as an instrument of war, he is a cipher, were errors just as great as to suppose that a seaman with a long, loyal, and brilliant record in the public service had put an evil enchantment over the whole British Navy because, fifty years before, he had been born a subject of a Power with which till now we had never been at war.
— from The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen

And now the land loomed large and bold upon the horizon, a gray and iron coast, inhospitable enough to scare away all rash adventurers, one might think, in search of new homes and brighter fortunes.
— from John Holdsworth, Chief Mate by William Clark Russell

The dew was glistening on every little leaf and blade of grass, and the birds sang deliciously in the shrubberies round her dwelling.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

She did not answer, and he laughed like a boy, rudely but not insolently.
— from The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

Just then, Rollo, who was all this time riding on the horse, looked down from his high seat into a little bush by the side of the road, and saw there a little bunch that looked like a birdsnest; and he said, “O, father, please to take me down; I want to look at that birdsnest.”
— from Rollo at Work by Jacob Abbott

And why should not such a comet settle in life, live, and become an inhabited globe?
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

7 So long as Man fancies that Fortune will live, Like a bride with her lover, united with Worth; For her favours, alas!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various