The large flight of steps which led to the entrance looked like a bower covered with roses and broad-leaved plants.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He that eats longest lives longest.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Sen. Levis sit tibi terra —May the earth lie light on thee.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The legions march, and Neptune leads the way: His brandish'd falchion flames before their eyes, Like lightning flashing through the frighted skies.
— from The Iliad by Homer

He is no more; may the earth lie light on his head!
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"All I can do is to give you bare life; you will have to learn what happens to people who interfere with me." As he spoke he seized me violently by the arm; the roof of the palace opened to make way for us, and we mounted up so high into the air that the earth looked like a little cloud.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

For this you must cut a hole in the end log, like a big, low window, pegging a jamb on the ends as before.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The younger of the two cousins was ugly, but looked like a woman, where as the elder looked like an ugly dressed man in woman’s clothes.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They are hollow, and in this resemble those of the Ant-lion, who sucks and drains her capture without having to divide it; but there is this great difference, that the Ant-lion leaves copious remnants, which are afterwards flung outside the funnel-shaped trap dug in the sand, whereas the Glow-worm, that expert liquifier, leaves nothing, or next to nothing.
— from The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Jean-Henri Fabre

Instead of such smoothly rounded nails as Theresa Zapp displayed, the new young lady had nails narrow and sharp-pointed, the ends like little triangles of stiff white writing-paper.
— from Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man by Sinclair Lewis

The entrance looked like the entrance to a theater—a big metal and plastic opening, like a huge room open on one side, with only that sheet of hot air to protect it from the storm raging outside.
— from Unwise Child by Randall Garrett

"May the earth lay lightly on you!"
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

In this part of the conversation I do not remember that we actually used many words—it was more as if atoms were flying between us; and all the time there were those eyes looking like a Madonna’s from that saintly head, and that wonderful smile with half-parted lips.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

Butler justified Bain's candour by saying that if he broke out again, he would be worse than the most savage tiger ever let loose on the community.
— from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. (Henry Brodribb) Irving

—Elliptical; twelve to eighteen lines long; three-nerved; smooth and shining above.
— from The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Then eastward, like lightning, The hero-god flew, His sunny looks brightening The air he went thro'.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore