This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

And since this is the case, it 46 is evident, that the latitudes are increased from the time of their morning risings, since the motions afterwards appear to receive less addition; but they gain their altitude in the first station, since the rate of their motion then begins to diminish 230 , and the stars to recede.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In evident fear of refusal, like a boy asking for permission to get on a horse, he begged to be allowed to swim across the river before the Emperor’s eyes.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The road lay amidst brushwood and underwood, over rolling stones, always upwards higher and higher in the dark night.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He bent his head and reflected like a blood-hound who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right scent.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

With such a look as hermits throw, When angels stoop to soothe their woe He gazed, till fond regret and pride Thrilled to a tear, then thus replied: 'Loveliest and best!
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

ingenious little machine is of great assistance in making straight running patterns and Irish lace braids, and is particularly useful for Russian lace and braid lace of all kinds.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

It was running low again, but enough for a return ticket to Hilton.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

TIRE, head-dress. TIRE, feed ravenously, like a bird of prey.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

and I heard him rip loose a brisk remark.
— from The Postmaster by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Just at the moment he appeared, a turkey rose, like a buzzard, out of the winter grass near him, and was about to make good its flight for the iced forests beyond, when his gun came to his shoulder, a flash and a report succeeded, and the great bird whirled and fell straight downward into the firs.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

I told him it was from the opposite side of the globe: he could not understand me, and to be more explicit, I told him that the ground we stood upon was part of the surface of the earth, which was round like a ball, and many thousands of miles around; and that these huge animals came from the side exactly opposite to us.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 2 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

Upon this ground, it is consistent with the established doctrine that such evidence is admissible to remove latent ambiguities, but cannot be admitted to explain patent ambiguities in a will.
— from The Curiosities and Law of Wills by John Proffatt

BIBLIOGRAPHY Much valuable bibliographical information is contained in two little books by Mr. John Albert Green of the Manchester Reference Library: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO THE GASKELL COLLECTION IN THE MOSS-SIDE LIBRARY.
— from Excursions in Victorian Bibliography by Michael Sadleir

She received the complimentary attentions which were profusely paid her, without evincing the slightest elevation; and at an early hour, wishing the company much enjoyment of their pleasures, and observing that it was time for old people to be at home, retired, leaning, as before, on the arm of her son."
— from Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Ruse Larus

We therefore retrace our steps into Theobald's Road, pass through Red Lion and Bloomsbury Squares, and along Great Russell Street as far as the British Museum, where Dickens is still remembered as "a reader" (merely remarking that it of course contains a splendid collection of the original impressions of the novelist's works, and "Dickensiana," as is evidenced by the comprehensive Bibliography furnished by Mr. John P. Anderson, one of the librarians, to Mr. Marzials' Life of Dickens ), which we leave on our left, and turn up Montague Street, go along Upper Montague Street, Woburn Square, Gordon Square, and reach Tavistock Square, at the upper end of which, on the east side, Gordon Place leads us into a retired spot cut off as it were from communication with the rest of this quiet neighbourhood.
— from A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz' Therein Collected by William R. (William Richard) Hughes

Had not her own judgment been wrought up by Selina's mysterious way of summoning her to Rouncivell Lodge and by the stifling atmosphere that enwrapped it to imagining what was, after all, looked at sanely, a melodramatic and improbable situation?
— from Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie

Thus saying, he sighed most bitterly and stalked up and down the room for a considerable time; {79} then relapsing into his passion, he roared like a bull, struck the table with his fist, and bestowed all the curses he could think of on the inhabitants of Bologna.
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 3/3 by Mateo Alemán