"llama" hidden in books

like looking at me as

I doen’t rightly know how ‘tis, but from over yon there seemed to me to come—the end of it like,’ looking at me as if he were waking, but with the same determined face.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Lignum Lignum as many as

This afternoon?" "Ah, Lignum, Lignum, as many as make an old woman of a young one, I begin to think.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

last leave and Mr Arnold

The Four Winds Harbour boys belonging to it from the Glen and over-harbour and Harbour Head and Upper Glen were all home on their last leave, and Mr. Arnold thought, properly enough, that it would be a fitting thing to hold a union prayer-meeting for them before they went away.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

less like a man and

Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

Lucien lighting a manilla at

“Really, my dear Albert,” replied Lucien, lighting a manilla at a rose-colored taper that burnt in a beautifully enamelled stand—“how happy you are to have nothing to do.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

lock Laugh as much as

And now that we have the magic key, where is the man who can fit it to the invisible lock?” “Laugh as much as you please, monsieur,” said Father Gèlis, “but I am confident the solution is contained in those two sentences, and some day we will find a man able to interpret them.”
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

life lean and meager as

In the list as above set down will be found every positively known fact of Shakespeare's life, lean and meager as the invoice is.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

lips looked at me as

But no—she mastered the rising irritation, leaned back in her chair, crossed her arms on her broad bosom, and with a smile of grim sarcasm on her thick lips, looked at me as steadily as ever.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Lucadia loved a maid and

A peacock in Lucadia loved a maid, and when she died, the peacock pined.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

longest lives and most ardent

I was, indeed, quite alive to the national evils of war, and I will not admit that any man-of-peace feels more sensitively than I do the fact that, in war, a nation’s best, youngest, and most hopeful blood is spilled, while its longest lives and most ardent spirits are ruthlessly, uselessly sacrificed—its budding youths, its strapping men, its freshest and most muscular, to say nothing of mental, manhood.
— from In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

looks like a meadow And

Her lawn looks like a meadow, And if she mows the place She leaves the clover standing And the Queen Anne's lace!
— from A Few Figs from Thistles by Edna St. Vincent Millay

let live and Maudie asked

They lived and let live, and Maudie asked no more.
— from Boy Woodburn: A Story of the Sussex Downs by Alfred Ollivant

love lost and myself alone

We stood a while silent, and my sorrow for myself began to get the upper hand; for here were all my dreams come to a sad tumble, and my love lost, and myself alone again in the world, as at the beginning.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 11 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lee looked at me and

And Lee looked at me, and he apparently thought that I had told De Mohrenschildt about it.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

leaped like a madman and

On I leaped, like a madman, and pounced on one gunner, and hurled him across his culverin; but the others had fled, and a heavy oak door fell to with a bang, behind them.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

look like a man abashed

He would cast down his eyes and look like a man abashed, and then gently, and with a mournful gesture, allow the words, “Morto, signor,” to come through his lips.
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

left like a madman and

Poutrelle was left like a madman and by sheer luck was not caught again.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

little lie about meeting a

As soon as Dave stopped speaking, he realized that it had been a mistake to add the little lie about meeting a German officer.
— from Dave Dawson with the R.A.F. by Robert Sidney Bowen

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