Then, turning towards me, he says that I look like a foreigner, and when I say that I am an Italian he begins to speak to me of the court, of the city, of the theatres, and at last he offers to accompany me everywhere.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But it is a strange thing to see how long this time did look since Sunday, having been always full of variety of actions, and little sleep, that it looked like a week or more, and I had forgot, almost the day of the week. 6th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Beneath it were signed the initials L. L.” “Have you got that slip?”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

"What fun it would be to send it to the stupid old Boldwood, and how he would wonder!" said the irrepressible Liddy, lifting her eyebrows, and indulging in an awful mirth on the verge of fear as she thought of the moral and social magnitude of the man contemplated.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Going on deck after breakfast, I was amazed to see floating down with the stream, a most gigantic raft, with some thirty or forty wooden houses upon it, and at least as many flag-masts, so that it looked like a nautical street.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle neck to tell which way the wind blew.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Yesterday we set out, attended by John, Abraham, Benjamin, and Isaac, in fine new liveries, in the best chariot, which had been new cleaned, and lined, and new harnessed; so that it looked like a quite new one.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Talking of London, he observed, 'Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Seek'st thou, in living lays, To limn the beauty of the earth and sky?
— from Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by William Cullen Bryant

“I can’t see that it looks like anything else.”
— from Patsy Carroll Under Southern Skies by Josephine Chase

Col. Irish, who was chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at Washington, when he died, and under whose administration the present building was erected, at one time sent to the wife of the writer a ten dollar bill, wrapped up so that it looked like a picture, cabinet size; this was accompanied by a note, to be opened first.
— from Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott

And now what is one to say about those beautiful but short-lived streams that in Lakeland link lake to lake, and which all the world after a fashion knows so well?
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

The Senior girls and boys had spent hours decorating the hall with festoons of greens and potted palms and ferns, so that it looked like the depths of a forest in the center of which the pool glittered like a magic spring.
— from The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks; Or, The House of the Open Door by Hildegard G. Frey

If I am talking of cotton, and a gentleman chooses to state that it looks like snow, I know exactly what he means.
— from Coffee and Repartee by John Kendrick Bangs

You will see that it looks like a ribbon which has been twisted.
— from Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley