I followed him into his room, and he began putting on his gown, and touching himself up before a little glass he had, hanging inside a closet door.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Speaking of his letters and public papers, Naunton says, "I never yet saw a style or phrase more seeming religious and fuller of the streams of devotion;" and notwithstanding the charge of hypocrisy on this head usually brought against Leicester in the most unqualified terms, many reasons might induce us to believe his religious faith sincere, and his attachment for certain schemes of doctrine, zealous.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

"I like this impudent fellow," he said, "and he was very willing to help us but a little while since.
— from Robin Hood by Paul Creswick

Is it true, then, that Miss Colleton has no memory which, at this moment, may spare me from the utterance of a name, which perhaps she herself would not be altogether willing to hear, and which it is not my policy to have uttered by any lips, and far less by my own?
— from Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms

John Pierpont, than whom there could not be a more competent witness, in his brief and beautiful sketch of the life and writings of Rogers, does not overestimate the ability with which the Herald was conducted, when he says of its editor: "As a newspaper writer, we think him unequalled by any living man; and in the general strength, clearness, and quickness of his intellect, we think all who knew him well will agree with us that he was not excelled by any editor in the country."
— from Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Part 1 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

No matter how bountifully a man is blessed with intelligence, if the brain is muddled, and his judgment warped by intoxicating drinks, it will simply be impossible for him to succeed, to his utmost bounds, at least.
— from Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Harry A. Lewis

The natives of America, whom Columbus called Indians, certainly resemble Asiatics in some physical features, such as the reddish-brown complexion, the hair, uniformly black and lank, the high cheek-bones, and short stature of many tribes.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

About 2, in the afternoon, all the boats from the line of battle ship, and some of the frigates, were sent to the frigate nearest to us, to endeavour to tow her up, but a light breeze sprung up, which enabled us to hold way with her, notwithstanding they had eight or ten boats ahead, and all her sails furled to tow her to windward.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

In front of the villa a row of antiquated stone vases shared the honors with equally dilapidated stone dogs along a grassy terrace held up by a low wall, while beyond this and the house was the vineyard.
— from The Spell by William Dana Orcutt

His clothes, torn to tatters, his unshorn beard and long, dishevelled, hair, blood-shot eyes, and haggard countenance, betokened the extremity of anguish and want.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester