Postprocessing includes automatic reformatting of retrieved data, transfers to various internal databases, statistics, usage logs, and calculation of transfer costs.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The information was greeted with what sounded uncommonly like a chorus of laughter.
— from Amusement Only by Richard Marsh

I gave you that name, myself, on account of your red hair, which stands up like a crest on the top of your ugly head.”
— from Fairy Tales from Gold Lands: Second Series by May Wentworth

The boxes were so squab and like their owners, that I half thought for a moment that they were inside, and should hardly have been surprised to see them spring up like a couple of Jacks-in-the-box.
— from The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Samuel Butler

"I wrote her she must come and live with me when I found I'd got to have——" He shut up like a clam, on that, and looked so horribly ashamed of himself that I burst out laughing.
— from Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

You can't do good shooting while you're strung up like a couple of cocoons.
— from First Lensman by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

The Dandy, fresh and spotless, appeared in a doorway; black boys sprang up like a crop of mushrooms and took charge of the buck-board; Dan rattled in with the pack-teams, and horses were jangling hobbles and rattling harness all about us, as I found myself standing in the shadow of a queer, unfinished building, with the Măluka and Mac surrounded by a mob of leaping, bounding dogs, flourishing, as best they could, another “Welcome home!”
— from We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn

It was curious to see them rising with the water growing more still as their frantic struggles ceased, and their forms grew plain as they rose quickly, one dark head suddenly shooting up like a cork on a pike line after the fish had rejected the bait, and its owner showing a brilliantly white set of teeth as he shouted, “Nurrer! nurrer!”
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

“You should have seen us, like a couple of movie ladies, armed to the teeth and posted behind our strongest door!
— from The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong; Or, Peg of Tamarack Hills by Lilian Garis