Having found, first, that spirits of the corn are not infrequently represented in the form of horses; and, second, that the animal which in later legends is said to have injured the god was sometimes originally the god himself, we may conjecture that the horses by which Virbius or Hippolytus was said to have been slain were really embodiments of him as a deity of vegetation.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The characters—of Phaedrus, who has been the cause of more philosophical discussions than any other man, with the exception of Simmias the Theban (Phaedrus); of Aristophanes, who disguises under comic imagery a serious purpose; of Agathon, who in later life is satirized by Aristophanes in the Thesmophoriazusae, for his effeminate manners and the feeble rhythms of his verse; of Alcibiades, who is the same strange contrast of great powers and great vices, which meets us in history—are drawn to the life; and we may suppose the less-known characters of Pausanias and Eryximachus to be also true to the traditional recollection of them (compare Phaedr., Protag.; and compare Sympos.
— from Symposium by Plato

This line written in large letters in several MSS.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Do you know, Eve, that when I was in London last I saw her dancing in the old, sweet way at the Alhambra?"
— from Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley

“At first, when you asked me, I’d have said not, but when I look longer it seems to me there’s a likeness, but if you wish to see what he was really like I can show you his photograph.”
— from The Cottage on the Fells by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

145 Having found, first, that spirits of the corn are not infrequently represented in the form of horses; 146 and, second, that the animal which in later legends is said to have injured the god was sometimes originally the god himself, we may conjecture that the horses by which Virbius or Hippolytus was said to have been slain were really embodiments of him as a deity of vegetation.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

New Place, with its lovely lawn, its spacious garden, the ancestral mulberry and the ivy-covered well, will bring the poet before you, as he lived and moved, in the meridian of his greatness.
— from Shakespeare's England by William Winter

“Well, it looks like it,” said Fred.
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn

A young mother is rejoicing in her baby when its little life is suddenly snuffed out.
— from The Conquest of Fear by Basil King

“Well, it looks like it,” said Warner, “but from what we hear he'll have quite an army at Donelson.
— from The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

[5] "Well, it looks like it, Sis," replied Joe, slowly, as he glanced at the letter again.
— from Baseball Joe in the Big League; or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles by Lester Chadwick

"Well, it looks like it," ses Emma.
— from Odd Man Out Sailor's Knots, Part 6. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs