They swing their boughs about, anywhere and everywhere; each stops or goes on just as it likes, nor will it be possible, in any of their works, to find a single example in which any symmetrical curve is indicated by the extremities.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

I suppose I've carried twenty thousand passengers across, and you are positively the first one to ask about anything except eating, sleeping, or when we are going to get there."
— from The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the Fifties by Samuel Adams Drake

Here, again, an Asiatic aflame at either end swooped out of the battle.
— from The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells