The comedy is so admirably written and contrived, the personages stand out with such lifelike distinctness in their several kinds, and the whole is animated with such verve and resourcefulness that "The Alchemist" is a new marvel every time it is read.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Here and there in the fields there rose up stacks of wheat straw, like huge yellow mushrooms, and the fields looked bare, as they had already been sown for the next year.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When the warriors told her that they were in search of water, she laid the child down in the grass, and led them to a secret spring in the forest, with which she alone was acquainted.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

They were gradually more and more extended, and were divided into many inferior chapters; till at last the doctrine of spirits, of which so little can be known, came to take up as much room in the system of philosophy as the doctrine of bodies, of which so much can be known.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

If a sixpence, for example, should, either by act of parliament or royal proclamation, be raised to the denomination of a shilling, and twenty sixpences to that of a pound sterling; the person who, under the old denomination, had borrowed twenty shillings, or near four ounces of silver, would, under the new, pay with twenty sixpences, or with something less than two ounces.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

This was because of a wooden staff on which she leaned to eke out the failing strength of her own limbs.
— from Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

Strangely enough, I was en route for the house of my friend, Mrs. B., and as the car, at this juncture, crossed the street on which she lived, I motioned to the conductor to [226] ring the bell, and alighted before hearing more of that remarkable tale.
— from The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland

[Pg 205] the lady's conduct, that weeping she should begin to speak of what she laughing had desired.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

nder a bright sun, this sheet of water shines like a mass of burnished silver, its edges being distinctly marked by a magnificent outline of cotton-wood trees, at this time of the year of the brightest verdure, among which those brilliant birds of the country, the black and red bird, and the blue jay, flit to and fro, or wheel their flight over them, forming a scene which has all of grandeur or beauty that nature can furnish, to soothe or enrapture the beholder.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various

They believed, for instance, that the blue sky overhead was something like a great iron
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt by James Baikie

he cried, dragging me by the sleeve, "or we shall lose them."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill