He was a remarkably handsome man; some years past forty, I should judge; with long black hair, an aquiline nose, broad cheek-bones, a sunburnt complexion, and a very bright, keen, dark, and piercing eye.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

The very babe Knows this, and, chance awak'd, his little hands Lifts to the gods, and on his innocent couch Calls down a blessing.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Van Buren knew that it stood for Henry as "Wm."
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

"Oh, Tucky," he called—Tucky being Mr. Aspetuck Savage Bear's pet name—"I've brought you some good news—some of the very best kind of news."
— from Hollow Tree Nights and Days by Albert Bigelow Paine

He was only eight years old, so he was not a very big King; but he had been King as long as he could remember, and he had been looking for something new the whole time.
— from The Other Side of the Sun: Fairy Stories by Evelyn Sharp

"He was a vera bad king."
— from A Song of a Single Note: A Love Story by Amelia E. Barr

"You don't suppose the Authorities care a bad tomato for an English Loot—what they'd cotton to would have to be a British Brass Hat of the very biggest kind.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

That which gives rise to the net work of our imaginary visible world, and that in which it appears to be situated, and whereby the mind is made to revolve in various bodies, know that supreme substance to be the Immensity of Brahma, and source of all this world (or as diffused as all in all which is thence called the visvam—the all to pan ).
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki