The matter which goes to form gloomy dreams are mischances which to some extent really threaten us, though it be from some distance; imagination makes us look larger and nearer and more terrible than they are in reality.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

You needn't have added the act that makes us look like a bunch of damned fools."
— from The Undetected by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

After Bjones had succeeded in making us look like a tramp that had just been run off a farm by a couple of bull-dogs, he led us out to the first tee—right in front of the verandah where a number of ladies were sitting.
— from Imperfectly Proper by Peter Donovan

The chief attempts on the water were the iron-plated ram Merrimac , commanded by Commodore Franklin Buchanan, which after sinking several wooden men-of-war in Hampton Roads was defeated by the new iron-turreted Monitor under Lieutenant (later Admiral)
— from The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict by Newell Dwight Hillis

She picks me up, laughing like a child, and carries me into the bathroom, carries me back and tucks me in bed as easily as she does the baby."
— from The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

Think how good all our oppressions have been in that they made us love liberty and truth.
— from Discourses of Keidansky by Bernard G. Richards

And then your young Corbett makes us look like amateurs."
— from Stand by for Mars! by Carey Rockwell

My uncle looked long and earnestly.
— from The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He tried to reason out why The Twins should wish to take possession of his property when there was so much unclaimed land lying all around on that side of the river.
— from If Any Man Sin by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody