The German Hausmänner are elves of a domestic turn, [ Pg 18] sometimes mischievous and sometimes useful, but usually looking for some material reward for their labours.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

But through it all we came at last to where the way led up a narrow gorge that grew steeper and more impracticable at every step until before us loomed a mighty fortress buried beneath the side of an overhanging cliff.
— from Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Again the white ashes heaved, and a half-consumed hand and arm were thrust through the mouldering mass, then a human head, with the scalp burnt from the skull, and the flesh from the chaps and cheek-bones; the trunk next appeared, the bleeding ribs laid bare, and the miserable Indian, with his limbs like scorched rafters, stood upright before us, like a demon in the midst of the fire.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 472, January 22, 1831 by Various

The general coincidence satisfies us; but, upon looking closely, we see, in detail, much that appears in coincident, and much in regard to which no coincidence, at least, is established.
— from Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

I do know that all that Ainnesley and I had scraped up between us looked like a shoe-string to him.
— from Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans

As we stood on its top the scene unrolled before us like a wonderful panoramic painting, and we gazed out on this "great chessboard, where the last hard game of Napoleon's and Wellington's protracted match was played."
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr