—Sí; sobre todo en la Argentina, Brasil y Chile.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

And fine fat blackbirds he made of those youngsters, too, in the end, I want to tell you, for he stuck to 'em like a brick.
— from The Way of the Wild by F. St. Mars

Savage indignation laid hold of him and he vented his rage in that mocking laughter which stings the ears like a buffet.
— from Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

They said they employed ladies, and being trained to detec—to inquiry work, I thought it would come easy to act a part.”
— from What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

'Mary,' I said—and the word seemed to explode like a bomb in the stillness—'Mary!
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

He was broad and squat and fearfully powerful, being but a bulk of gristly muscle; and when he leaped a gully or a brook, he seemed to strike the earth like a ball of rubber and slightly rebound an the light impact.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The head of the creature we set down at about six feet in length, and that portion of the neck which we saw the same; the extreme length, as before stated, at between eighty and one hundred feet.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

He adds his soul to every loss, and by the act of suicide renounces earth to forfeit heaven."....
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

Saying this, Mr Marlow summoned the English lads; and Betsy, who had hitherto kept at a distance, and kneeling on the ground, offered up an earnest prayer to God, that if it was in accordance with His will, and for the benefit of the young Maori girl, He would spare her life.
— from Waihoura, the Maori Girl by William Henry Giles Kingston

There Edgewater, Mr. Keese's attractive home, overlooks, from the south, the entire length and beauty of Lake Otsego, whose waters and banks are haunted by Cooper's creations.
— from James Fenimore Cooper by Mary Elizabeth Phillips

But guide my steps to endless life and bliss.
— from The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States by Benjamin Griffith Brawley