In exactly the same way the Roman Empire lay like a lamb in the embrace of this great crescent of outer barbarians.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The relief expedition looked like a success.
— from The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

The next morning we rode through the great sugarcane fields to the hacienda of San Nicolas, one of the finest estates in the republic, eighteen leagues long and five wide, belonging to Señor Zamora, in right of his wife.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

After the present series of reprints had been planned for, and announced in a detailed prospectus, there was issued from the press of Francis P. Harper of New York the important volumes edited by Major H. M. Chittenden and Alfred Talbot Richardson, entitled Life, Letters, and Travels of Father Pierre Jean de Smet, S. J., 1801-73 .
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg

The night was very pleasant; and as I lay upon a flat rock, looking out upon the stars from my high and silent perch, the round earth looming like a shadow far below me, I thought it would be delightful to make a long stay on this interesting pinnacle, especially at this time, as the weather was very fine; but the getting of food presented itself as an obstacle.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 by Various