She still held up her arms, and biting her lip, she slowly ran her fingers through the golden mass, like a child playing with a toy, while thinking of something else; and again letting it fall, she quickly unplaited it to spread it out; soon she was covered with her own locks, which fell to her knees, looking like some Druidess.
— from An Iceland Fisherman by Pierre Loti

The hills were sliding queerly up into the sky.
— from Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by William MacLeod Raine

Only I warn them that the insects sticking to the plant do not dissolve into broth, but shrivel, quite uselessly, in the sun.
— from More Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre

Dr. Balmer was a clear-headed, fair-minded theologian—in fact, so very fair, and even generous, was he wont to be in dealing with opponents that he sometimes, quite unjustly, incurred the suspicion of being in sympathy, if not in league, with these opponents.
— from Principal Cairns by John Cairns

Immediately after dinner, too, came something quite unexpected in the shape of a call from Cordelia.
— from The Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

At the same place are individual trees of a size quite unknown in these southern districts.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

He had noticed, and states in his narrative, that Strap had seemed quite unable, in the same way, to take his eyes off the creature for a single second.
— from Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Hewlett