C.] Vincent of Beauvais has got from some of his authorities a conception of the distinction of the Tartars into two races, to which, however, he assigns no names: " Sunt autem duo genera Tartarorum, diversa quidem habentia idiomata, sed unicam legem ac ritum, sicut Franci et Theutonici ."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

“Those innocent eyes slit my soul up like a razor,” he used to say afterwards, with his loathsome snigger.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This river cometh, running from Paradise terrestrial, between the deserts of Ind, and after it smiteth unto land, and runneth long time many great countries under earth.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

English officials—Deputy Commissioners even—turned aside from the main road to visit him, and on those occasions he dressed himself in the uniform of ancient days, and stood up like a ramrod.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

She sprang up like a roe which has been overtaken by the shot of the hunter.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I hope he hasnt long greasy hair hanging into his eyes or standing up like a red Indian what do they go about like that for only getting themselves and their poetry laughed at I always liked poetry when I was a girl first I thought he was a poet like lord Byron and not an ounce of it in his composition I thought he was quite different I wonder is he too young hes about wait 88
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

ad omnīs enim meōs impetūs quasi mūrus quīdam bonī nōmen imperātōris oppōnitur , V. 5, 2, for against all assaults of mine the name of a good commander is set up, like a regular wall .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In Paul’s church-yard I called at Kirton’s, and there they had got a mass book for me, which I bought and cost me twelve shillings; and, when I came home, sat up late and read in it with great pleasure to my wife, to hear that she was long ago so well acquainted with.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Upon these official reports, showing not merely that atrocious [Pg 189] crimes were everywhere committed against loyal people, but that the civil authorities did not even attempt to prevent them by the punishment of the perpetrators, it became the plain duty of Congress to adopt measures "to enforce peace and good order in the rebel States, until loyal and Republican State governments could be legally established."
— from The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes by J. Q. (James Quay) Howard

Professor Justin Winsor's work has provided an invaluable store of ripe scholarship in matters of cosmography and geographical detail; Sir Clements Markham's book, by far the most trustworthy of modern English works on the subject, and a valuable record of the established facts in Columbus's life, has proved a sound guide in nautical matters; while the monograph of Mr. Elton, which apparently did not promise much at first, since the author has followed some untrustworthy leaders as regards his facts, proved to be full of a fragrant charm produced by the writer's knowledge of and interest in sub-tropical vegetation; and it is delightfully filled with the names of gums and spices.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 1 by Filson Young

Free at last, the huge kite shot upwards like a rocket, and a terrible howl from the Eskimo showed that all was not right at their end of the line.
— from The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

When the parson gets out a hymn, she straightened up like a rooster at six o'clock of daybreak, and let out a string of screams that set all the babies to yelping as though big pins was goin' clean through their insides.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

"Mis' Polly stiffen' up like a ramrod.
— from The Marrow of Tradition by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt

Linda sprang up like a released bowstring.
— from Jack Chanty: A Story of Athabasca by Hulbert Footner

But here seeing you stand unmoved, Like a rock mid raging seas, No extraneous miseries Make me say I love you now.
— from The Wonder-Working Magician by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

flesh rasping harsh on flesh a tune on a shrill pipe shimmers up like a rocket blurred in the fog of lives curdled in the moon's glare, staggering up like a rocket into the steely star-sharpened night above the stagnant moon-marshes the song throbs soaring and dies.
— from A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos

He had seen those calm, bird-like, relentless profiles in prints of the Egyptian sculptures and paintings, with long, straight noses, protruding and short upper lips, and receding small chins,—the true signs of a used-up decadent race.
— from The Empire Makers: A Romance of Adventure and War in South Africa by Hume Nesbit