To render these recollections the more vivid, it came on to snow as night set in; and, passing through Stamford and Grantham, and by the little alehouse where he had heard the story of the bold Baron of Grogzwig, everything looked as if he had seen it but yesterday, and not even a flake of the white crust on the roofs had melted away.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

A bank even of loose earth, six feet high, will sometimes overhang its base a foot or two, as you may see any day in the gravelly banks of the lanes of Hampstead: but make the bank of gravel, equally loose, six hundred feet high, and see if you can get it to overhang a hundred or two!
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin

Next came two Blue Children bending under the weight of a pole from which was slung a bunch of grapes each larger than a pear.
— from The Blue Bird for Children The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness by Maurice Maeterlinck

started Tommy Cox; in a burst of gruff enthusiasm, Luke joined in; and then the rest of the company.
— from Twos and Threes by G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern

These, like all the other old "Chronicle histories," such as Thomas Lord Cromwell and the Famous Victories of Henry V. , follow a merely chronological, or biographical, order, giving events loosely, as they occurred, without any unity of effect, or any reference to their bearing on the catastrophe.
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

It was as if every blade of grass, every leaf of sage, every twig of cedar, the flowers, the trees, the rocks came to life at sight of the sun.
— from The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey

Just now I opened Spenser, and the first Lines I saw were these— “The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious great intent, Can never rest until it forth have brought Th’ eternal brood of glory excellent—” Let me know particularly about Haydon, ask him to write to me about Hunt, if it be only ten lines—I hope all is well—I shall forthwith begin my Endymion, which I hope I shall have got some way with by the time you come, when we will read our verses in a delightful place I have set my heart upon, near the Castle.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

There was not one grain, one blade of grass even, left.
— from Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica by Anne Hoyt

As in the moonlit evening, so now in the sunshine, every blade of grass, every leaf, every little stone, sparkled and shone.
— from Nostalgia by Grazia Deledda

[99] The jewel at Florence (2 inches in diameter) has a border of green enamelled leaves set with pearls, and in the centre a finely modelled figure of a dromedary in white enamel.
— from Jewellery by H. Clifford (Harold Clifford) Smith