The suturae, or seams of his skull, His eyes, like a comb-box.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

When at Florence she had eight lovers, and she had had them all on the same night without any of them knowing of the others.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Our Kitty has learned to skate nicely, hasn’t she?” When Levin darted up to Kitty her face was no longer stern; her eyes looked at him with the same sincerity and friendliness, but Levin fancied that in her friendliness there was a certain note of deliberate composure.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was wonderful to see how exceedingly like a human being it behaved.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A gentleman with a beard, some sort of free artist, was particularly sinister; he even looked at Ivan Ilyitch several times, and then turning to his neighbour, whispered something.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Enter SIR HUGH EVANS like a satyr, ANNE PAGE as a fairy, and OTHERS as the Fairy Queen, fairies, and Hobgoblin; all with tapers FAIRY QUEEN.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

‘He it is whom the two sticks have engendered, like a new-born babe.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Windsor Park Enter SIR HUGH EVANS like a satyr, with OTHERS as fairies EVANS.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

So, when the snows had melted and the rime no longer touched with fairy fingerprints the tracery of the leafless boughs, and when Olwen the White-footed had come once more into the valley called after her name, Lutra forsook the broad river in which she had spent her early life, and, [Pg 50] with her companion and a promising family, lived contented under the frowning Rock of Gwion, secure in peace and solitude, at least for a season, from the shaggy otter-hounds.
— from Creatures of the Night: A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Alfred Wellesley Rees

And these are they that believe, that shall have eternal life, and salvation cometh to none else.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

Holding one by the middle, between index finger and thumb, in a manner that would have delighted the heart of old Izaak Walton, the worm wriggling and twisting the while with all the liveliness of an eel in similar circumstances, “There, sir,” he exclaimed, looking at the lively “brindled” as if he loved it, “there, sir, is a bonny ane!
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

'Mamma—mamma, let Jerrie in,' came faintly from the closed room; and then Mrs. Tracy stood aside and let Jerrie pass into the luxurious apartment, where Maude lay upon a silken couch, with a soft, rose-colored shawl thrown over her shoulders, her eyes large and hollow, and her face as white almost as a corpse.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

124:7 Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler's snare.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Brutal and blood-stained among savages and the barbarous but policied peoples of antiquity, Assyrians, Chaldæans, Egyptians, Hebrews; cruel and intolerant among Newer Nations well advanced in art and letters, but ignorant of the world they lived in and the universe around them, religion has only become humane as Science has been suffered to shed her ennobling light, and will first prove truly beneficent when Piety is seen to consist in study of the laws of nature, which are the laws of God, and Worship is acknowledged to be comprised in reverential observance of their behests.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

Hania, who, notwithstanding all her tact, hardly restrained tears from suffusing her eyes, looked at Selim as her savior, with thankfulness and homage.
— from Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz

They all seemed happy enough, laughing and chatting, and many of them waved their hands to us as the train steamed off.
— from Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eugène Du Moulin

She cuddled down into her chair and shut her eyes like a child in the ecstasies of a fairy story.
— from The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan by Frances Little

She wasn't exactly blotto, but she had evidently laid a good foundation for a first-class jag.
— from Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper