"She has pretty hands, your lady love," said Mrs. Fane, suddenly looking across to the McDonnells' table.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

Perhaps however, your Lordship, like the French Critic, is at a loss to find in all this, the energy, the vehemence, the exuberance of Pindar.
— from An Essay on the Lyric Poetry of the Ancients by John Ogilvie

But it is quite impossible to present you anywhere with that mop of Pyrenean hair; you look like a porcupine; and therefore we’ll take you close by, Place de la Bourse, to Marius, another of our comedians—”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

And as I looked at him beseechingly and with joined hands, he went on:— "A pretty husband you look like!—without a sou, and dreaming of going into housekeeping!
— from The Strand Magazine: Vol. 07, Issue 37, January, 1894. An Illustrated Monthly by Various