One looked so like a very pirate that we let him go at once.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Yet behind all lowering stealing, lo, a shape, Vague as the night, draped interminably, head, front and form, in scarlet folds, Whose face and eyes none may see, Out of its robes only this, the red robes lifted by the arm, One finger crook'd pointed high over the top, like the head of a snake appears.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

dalúpang n k.o. shrub, the leaves of which are used topically for rashes and stomach ailments: Urena lobata . — ginting variety with palmately-lobed leaves, considered the best for medicinal use. — kukhan n variety with serrate but not lobed leaves, shaped like a fingernail.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Your love says like an honest gentleman, And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When, therefore, she was led to the stake, she laid the shirts on her arm, and when she stood on high and the fire was just going to be lighted, she looked around and six swans came flying through the air towards her.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

When I had the pleasure of seeing him last, so lately as 1893, he was extremely cheerful and not aggressively alcoholic.
— from Masques & Phases by Robert Baldwin Ross

Chartley was seated on the footstool, with his feet stretched towards the fire, and his left side leaning against the arm of the chair.
— from The Woodman: A Romance of the Times of Richard III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

[Pg 151] I before thee stand and listen; To the end I listen stoutly, Like a type of faith in silence, And I fold my hands devoutly.
— from Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

He looked so like a sulky child, standing there.
— from Beyond by John Galsworthy