Seen from the sea, it looked like a long string of houses along the narrow beach, surmounted with red banks of earth, with little verdure, and no trees at all.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

‘I need look somewhat changed,’ he said, after a short silence; ‘for I have undergone some suffering, both of mind and body, since I left London.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

"Now, gentlemen," called out K., and for a moment it seemed as if he was carrying all of them on his shoulders, "it looks like your business with me is over with.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

From my School, in Lothbury, London, Jan. 25, 1658 .
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

What should I look like, taking it home already cut!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The one, in his separate independent state, is less liable to the temptations of bad company, which, in large manufactories, so frequently ruin the morals of the other.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

As the upper limit of the Gorge of the Whirlpool Rapids thus corresponds to the closing of the “North Bay Outlet” and the extinction of the Nipissing Great Lakes, so its lower limit doubtless corresponds to the opening of that outlet and the termination of the preceding Algonquin stage; for in the stage of the Nipissing lakes the water of the upper lakes, as we have learned, reached the ocean through the northern outlet.
— from Earth Features and Their Meaning An Introduction to Geology for the Student and the General Reader by William Herbert Hobbs

They stand or sit in long lines, singing the softest of crooning songs, the while swaying, posturing, undulating, or step-dancing in perfect unison, to represent the movement of paddling, spinning, weaving, swimming, or setting sail.
— from Down Under with the Prince by Everard Cotes

The pleasure I derive from its contemplation has survived many others, and should I live long, will, I think, outlive all that I am now capable of....
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

Slowly I lifted livid limbs aloft; Upward I strove: the face!
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

She could scarcely speak a word distinctly, but taking first one and then the other by the hand, she said inquiringly: "Lewis?" "Lewis?"
— from A Child's Anti-Slavery Book Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of Slave-Life. by Various

He himself lacked energy, and seems in later life to have been very much of a tool in the hands of others.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

He said it looked like that.
— from The Belfry by May Sinclair