Yet, though so plainly dressed, there was a certain rejuvenated appearance about her:— As though a rose should shut and be a bud again.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The doctor stooped towards it, then saw that one of the aerial rootlets still stirred feebly, and hesitated.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Between the chief building and western wing arose a very tall and rather slender square chimney of hard Dutch bricks, alternately black and red:—a slight cornice of projecting bricks at the top.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

It follows that a republican State so happily situated could have nothing to fear but from itself; and that, if its members trained themselves to the use of arms, it would be rather to keep alive that military ardour and courageous spirit which are so proper among free-men, and tend to keep up their taste for liberty, than from the necessity of providing for their defence.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On the same continent fresh-water fish often range widely, and as if capriciously; for in two adjoining river systems some of the species may be the same and some wholly different.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Without saying a word she took hold of the winch (it was turned by handpower then), and round she swung him, and Jack began to flop about inside.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

And [Pg 162] I've good hopes that we may be able to bring them to a reasonable settlement, so that he can go about again in perfect safety.
— from Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine by R. B. (Richard Baxter) Townshend

They have a quick destroyer-like roll, and, unless going slow, they have a trick of neglecting to lift occasionally when meeting a head sea; but they are really safe sea-boats, and if trim and speed are correctly adjusted, far more comfortable in bad weather than destroyers are.
— from The Story of Our Submarines by John Graham Bower

With a heart-rending cry for mercy she would start up in bed, and, before her cry had well subsided, would come the consciousness that the peril was past, and then, with a mournful sigh, would she sink back again to try and regain sufficient self-control to betray nothing; not even of him who had deserted her.
— from A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever

On the afternoon which completed the sowing, they saw coming over the adjoining road some sheep with dirty wool, which stopped timidly at the end of the field.
— from The Cabin [La barraca] by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

—Repairing tent, and receiving sundry stores, Moenem-okaia died.
— from The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi by David Livingstone

A half-mile farther on he came to a real shady spot by the roadside, under a tree which stood in a corner of a pasture on the other side of a fence.
— from The Boy Scouts of Bob's Hill A Sequel to 'The Bob's Hill Braves' by Charles Pierce Burton

It was not for some years that any regular settlers’ ship went out with free passengers.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

I remember how Grannie told me [101] that when she was a girl she used to invite a number of her little school-friends to her cottage on half-holidays; each girl brought a small piece of work with her, a tiny petticoat to sew, a sock to knit, or what not; and they would sew and chat away happily for hours, fancying themselves a real sewing society.
— from Betty's Battles: An Everyday Story by S. L. M.

I take at random such statements as "Our feeding is pretty good, but the drinking is not," "The Russians gave a spread
— from The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Demetrius Charles Boulger

They are rehearsing Spohr's symphony, "Die Weihe der Töne," with Schumann's "Manfred" overture, and Beethoven's sublime "Leonora," for their first concert, and will do much for classical music by their four concerts.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various