The little elder-tree mother had suddenly become a charming young girl, but her dress was still of the same green material, covered with white blossoms, as the elder-tree mother had worn; she had a real elder blossom on her bosom, and a wreath of the same flowers was wound round her curly golden hair; her eyes were so large and so blue that it was wonderful to look at them.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

On her bosom she had a real Elderflower, and in her yellow waving hair a wreath of the flowers; her eyes were so large and blue that it was a pleasure to look at them; she kissed the boy, and now they were of the same age and felt alike.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But this Mme. de Guermantes of whom I had so often dreamed, now that I could see that she had a real existence independent of myself, acquired a fresh increase of power over my imagination, which, paralysed for a moment by contact with a reality so different from anything that it had expected, began to react and to say within me: "Great and glorious before the days of Charlemagne, the Guermantes had the right of life and death over their vassals; the Duchesse de Guermantes descends from Geneviève de Brabant.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Principió por obligar a su hermana a residir en Orbajosa, administrando por sí misma sus vastas tierras, mientras él hacía frente en Madrid al formidable empuje de los acreedores.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

A big cat-fish collided with Marquette's canoe, and startled him; and reasonably enough, for he had been warned by the Indians that he was on a foolhardy journey, and even a fatal one, for the river contained a demon 'whose roar could be heard at a great distance, and who would engulf them in the abyss where he dwelt.'
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

It was one of the many causes for personal pride with which old Osborne chose to recreate himself that Sedley, his ancient rival, enemy, and benefactor, was in his last days so utterly defeated and humiliated as to be forced to accept pecuniary obligations at the hands of the man who had most injured and insulted him.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“And spacemen have a reputation, eh?”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Besides she has a reputation enough to...."
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She has a rich Eastern look; she has fine eyes and fine manners.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

And that had been the origin of the soirées held at Robert East's.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

The fact is, they were well tired from their afternoon’s work, but love for their lost schoolmate had a refreshing effect.
— from Hal Kenyon Disappears by Gordon (Adventure story writer) Stuart

As in the other cases, the Court of Appeals refused to disturb the judgment of the lower court, maintaining that all the authorities agreed that unless a tacit agreement between the State and defendant had been entered into to reduce the punishment, the State had a right even under the plea of guilty to introduce testimony illustrating the atrocity of the crime .
— from Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies Authentic History of the World Renowned Vendettas of the Dark and Bloody Ground by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg

The smaller, westerly city (51), is in Kansas, the largest town of that State; has a remarkable elevated railway.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

SCHUYLER: The doctors say he is so strong, nothing can kill him, except his fondness for Persian plums, and there is a mandate out inflicting death upon any man who sends him any. (ROSE enters.)
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

“It is the carriage of the Duke of Saint-Maclou, sir,” he answered readily enough.
— from The Indiscretion of the Duchess Being a Story Concerning Two Ladies, a Nobleman, and a Necklace by Anthony Hope

Her face was somewhat pale and her eyes looked unnaturally large, but she had a resolute expression about her mouth, which showed that she had made up her mind.
— from Red Money by Fergus Hume