This symbolises the sacrifice of Aravān, and the men who have just been married to him set up loud lamentations at the death of their husband.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

As we steamed up Loch Linne a Scotchman pointed out Ben-Nevis.
— from Our Journey to the Hebrides by Joseph Pennell

“Aunt Priscilla will sure be a plenty worried by this time,” he said, “and I don’t want to frighten her into fits by showing up looking like a battered specimen from a railroad wreck.
— from Boys of Oakdale Academy by Morgan Scott

She had light-brown hair and gray eyes and a short upper lip like a curled rose-leaf.
— from The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

" The tail is his weapon of active defense; with it he strikes upward like lightning, and drives the quills into whatever they touch.
— from Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

I ought to have carried a stiff upper lip, long ago.
— from Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio. Second Series by Fanny Fern

Having long been a widower, he was in some measure accustomed to this state, until love laid a snare for him just at the age of sixty-five.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

He waged far more effective war than the distant sultan upon local liberties, and, though the elimination of the feudal Turkish landowner was pure gain to the Greeks, they suffered themselves from the loss of traditional privileges which the original Ottoman conquest had left intact.
— from The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Arnold Toynbee

She sat up laughing like a child.
— from The Last Ditch by Will Levington Comfort