Although we had experienced little positive suffering from the intense cold, except on the return from Muoniovara to Haparanda, our bodies had already accommodated themselves to a low temperature, and the sudden transition to 30° above zero came upon us like the warmth of June.
— from Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Bayard Taylor

she whispered, her eyes like purple stars, her face flooded with a dark rose color.
— from The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey

There were moments when his exotic little personality, standing out from all the rest like an infant Artful Dodger or a caricature of Beau Brummel, seemed to make him wholly alien to the group, yet he was docile and obedient, his only fault being a tendency to strong and highly colored language.
— from The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Robert Fludd, the great Rosicrucian, who became more famous than Dee in occult studies, before he gave the world his elaborate labours, passed six years in his travels in France, Germany, and Italy.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli