She was in his thoughts, and the knife trembled in the hand of the little mermaid: then she flung it far away from her into the waves; the water turned red where it fell, and the drops that spurted up looked like blood.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I never raised a shilling upon Lady Lyndon’s property but I spent it like a man of honour; besides incurring numberless personal obligations for money, which all went to the common stock.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

“O, my dear sir,” a peasant spoke up humbly, bowing [pg 100] to the Monk and scratching his head, “for the gentry it is only half bad, but they skin us like linden bark.”
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Sitting up late, Lamb on, 308.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Served under Lord Lynedoch in Holland.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

it stands upright, Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Then out of the press and throng there sprang a dark-haired youth, and put his arms about this long-forgotten maid, and kissed her pale face in which the blood shot up like lights of the red dawn across the silent sky.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

It is a sin to hold a slave under laws like ours,—I always felt it was,—I always thought so when I was a girl,—I thought so still more after I joined the church; but I thought I could gild it over,—I thought, by kindness, and care, and instruction, I could make the condition of mine better than freedom—fool that I was!”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Entering frankly into the plot, the charming princess, on the very evening, so effectively cajoled the young recalcitrant Comte that, vanquished, or rather won over, he absented himself for a moment, to reappear with a clean and smooth upper lip like that of a young girl.
— from Anecdotal Recollections of the Congress of Vienna by La Garde-Chambonas, Auguste Louis Charles, Comte de

I sat up late last night, occupied till nearly ten in copying my diary for Sheldon—which was just in time for the London post—and lingering over my cigar till past midnight, thinking of Charlotte.
— from Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

It is of a trailing habit, creeping along the ground, rooting at every joint, and sending up little leafy upright stems, from which spring long slender thready pedicels, each terminated by a delicate peach-blossom tinted flower, nodding on the stalk, so as to throw the narrow pointed petals upward.
— from North American Wild Flowers by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill

Indeed, Jake's very nose, which was fleshy and pear-shaped and decidedly not Jewish (although not decidedly anything else), seemed to join the Mosaic faith, and even his shaven upper lip looked penitent, as soon as that smile of his made its appearance.
— from Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan

As if the boy should use like loving charms.
— from Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Smith, William, active 1596

Along this desolate shore we found the pickled bodies of fish from Jordan, and here and there a palm stem, carried over from the east, while in the hollows of the rocks we noticed the waves splashing up, leaving little pools which dried rapidly, and made a white bed of crystalline salt on the stones.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

It may perhaps be worth while to translate here a few sentences of the first chapter of the ‘Historia 42 ,’ to show how far such writers as Leonhardt Thurneisser had departed from the pursuit of the subject upon legitimate lines.
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber

Leaves large, thin; upper surface light green, pubescent, hairy; lobes wanting or one to three with terminus acute; petiolar sinus deep, narrow, sometimes closed and overlapping; basal sinus usually lacking; lateral sinus shallow, often notched; teeth deep, wide.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

Our ditch ran through some formation that would slack up like lime; and as whole sections of it would slide, it kept us busy nearly all the time the following year enlarging and repairing the canal.
— from Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert by James H. McClintock