There is nothing worse than a loaded pistol which nobody uses left lying in some corner of the house; a child finds it, begins to play with it, and kills its own father.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

The vessels at anchor near us loomed large in the starlit gloom that overspread the face of the sea.
— from The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 1 of 3 An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas by William Clark Russell

Tor di Rocca stopped short by the door; the smile that had been in his hot eyes as they met Olive’s faded, and the short, Neronic upper lip lifted in a sort of snarl.
— from Olive in Italy by Moray Dalton

Third and fourth joints of hind legs scarcely twice as long as broad; abdominal bristles not unusually long; legs I
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen