The bright blue eyes regarded the spectator with a kind of lurking drollery—you almost expected to see them wink; the lips—a little too voluptuously full—seemed ready to break into a smile; the warmly-tinted cheeks were embellished with a luxuriant growth of reddish whiskers; while the bright chestnut hair, clustering in abundant, wavy curls, trespassed too much upon the forehead, and seemed to intimate that the owner thereof was prouder of his beauty tha
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Cherry blossoms were gone when we got here, but the young leaves of the maples are lovely green or red and the whole earth is paradise now.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

"Let us go straight to the fact and to the point," said I. "Louis Bonaparte is gaining ground, and we are losing ground, or rather, we should say, he has as yet everything, and we have as yet nothing.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

But Phoebus urged Æneas to the fight; He seem'd like aged Periphas to sight: (A herald in Anchises' love grown old, Revered for prudence, and with prudence bold.)
— from The Iliad by Homer

They serve a large group of readers, viewers or listeners with different interests in mind.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Occasionally a little group of recluses lived together like those three young sisters of the Thirteenth Century for whom the Ancren Riwle , a Rule or Counsel for "Ancres," was at their own request composed.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

I remember a long gallery of rusting stands of arms, and how I hesitated between my crowbar and a hatchet or a sword.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The sins which these devils represent are labelled, generally on rings around the serpent, and increase in heinousness towards the head.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Besides, a little glow of righteous anger was springing up within me.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

His tone and manner, in making this reply, so alarmed Lady Glyde, or rather so painfully increased the uneasiness which she had felt in the company of the two strangers, that a sudden faintness overcame her, and she was obliged to ask for a glass of water.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

At that time of the year there was little to be seen out of doors, but one curiosity the Wexfords described, to which they were very anxious to introduce their young friends: and this was a little group of robin red-breasts which had been hatched in their sum
— from Christmas, A Happy Time A Tale, Calculated for the Amusement and Instruction of Young Persons by Alicia Catherine Mant

CHAPTER VII THE DECANTERBURY PILGRIMS Through a dreary waste of devastated country a little group of refugees plodded in silence.
— from In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley

He was frightened of the dusk, he would run through the passage and up the stairs at breathless speed, he would look for a moment at the lamp-lit square with the lights of the opposite houses tigers' eyes, and the trees filmy like smoke, then would hastily draw the curtains and greet the warm inhabited room with a little gasp of reassurance.
— from The Golden Scarecrow by Hugh Walpole

Outside he got bigger and bigger till the trees of the nearer forest were like grass under his feet, and the mug ran out of his hand like a little grain of rape-seed.
— from Nine Unlikely Tales by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Even some of the beaches of Cape May had valuable oak and luxuriant growths of red cedar; and until a few years ago there were fine trees, especially hollies, surviving on Wildwood Beach.
— from The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware by Sydney George Fisher

Robin felt himself pushed this way and that; he struggled violently, driving his elbows right and left; was lifted for a moment clean from his feet by the pressure about him; slipped down again; gained a yard or two; lost them; gained three or four in a sudden swirl; and immediately found his feet on wood instead of earth; and himself racing desperately as a loose group of runners, across the bridge; and beneath the arch of the castle-gate.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

He was looking so intently into a little grove of Roman hyacinths, that perhaps the hyacinths heard what he said; at any rate, she did not.
— from Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

“Doing me well for our farewell dinner, Dad,” Gregory murmured appreciatively, as he set down his glass with a little gesture of reverence.
— from Stolen Idols by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The king of France is so called by others, either with or without his proper name; but he never styles himself so in any letter, grant, or rescript.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer