It was very lovely; and when rockets began to whizz, filling the air with golden rain, a shower of colored stars, fiery dragons, or glittering wheels, the girls could only shriek with delight, and beg to stay a little longer each time the prudent lady proposed going home.
— from Jack and Jill by Louisa May Alcott

Its body, they said, was of green velvet with a satin-white throat; it had [87] a long beak—at least an inch long—a fan-tail of many feathers, two long plumes from its head, "the littlest feet you ever have seen," and large lustrous eyes that seemed filled with human intelligence.
— from Woodland Tales by Ernest Thompson Seton

His struggles kept the bird at a distance, but it continued to survey him with such a longing, liquorish eye, that the poor culprit felt himself already writhing, like another Prometheus, under the beak of his destroyer.
— from The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

This race of warmen and horsemen surprisingly resembles the Somal, who hold the same parallels of latitude in Eastern Africa, as to small heads, semi-Caucasian features, Asiatic above the nose-tip and African below; tall lithe figures, high shoulders, and long limbs, especially the forearm.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

She was now, on the surface at least, less excited than Sidney.
— from K by Mary Roberts Rinehart

And, no doubt, it will be maintained that at this point the father should have written his son a long letter explaining to him the nature of the temptation to which he would be exposed.
— from Public School Life: Boys, Parents, Masters by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

“Here, Mother, stop staring at Lydia long enough to welcome me home, too.”
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher