One while he is enrolled in spires making enormous rings; sometimes he unfolds himself straighter than a long beam.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

I was completely exhausted when I began this climb, and did not feel comfortable clinging like a tree frog to the face of a clay bank with nothing to support me except rather shallow holes which could be better negotiated by Ifugaos, possessed of prehensile toes, than by men wearing shoes.
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

"My eyes are stupid, and the smoke makes 'em run," said he; "what has Jack got hold of there?"
— from Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie

Colonel Esmond could not refrain from a smile, to see how easy Frank's attack was drawn off by that feint:— “I fancy Clotilda is not the subject in hand,” says Mr. Esmond, rather scornfully; “her ladyship is at Paris, a hundred leagues off, preparing baby-linen.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray