Now there is a roar of fire and the flames are bearing down upon her motionless figure.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

This rebuke, instead of silencing, gave new spirit and volubility to her reproaches, in the course of which she plainly taxed him with want of honesty and affection, and said that, though his pretence was love, his aim was no other than a base design upon her fortune.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

So the stately Queen abode For many a week, unknown, among the nuns; Nor with them mixed, nor told her name, nor sought, Wrapt in her grief, for housel or for shrift, But communed only with the little maid, Who pleased her with a babbling heedlessness Which often lured her from herself; but now, This night, a rumour wildly blown about Came, that Sir Modred had usurped the realm, And leagued him with the heathen, while the King Was waging war on Lancelot: then she thought, 'With what a hate the people and the King Must hate me,' and bowed down upon her hands Silent, until the little maid, who brooked No silence, brake it, uttering, 'Late!
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

"At the heel of the action, when the 'Exeter' was already in the state of a wreck, the master came to Commodore King to ask him what he should do with the ship, as two of the enemy were again bearing down upon her.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over,—a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again.
— from White Fang by Jack London

The father and brother depended upon her; while they were giving way to grief, she must be working, planning, considering.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

His craven spirit shrinks at the notion, a probable enough one, I will admit, that Charles Holland has recognised him, and that, if once free, he would denounce him to the Bannerworths, holding him up to scorn in his true colours, and bringing down upon his head, perhaps, something more than detestation and contempt.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

Simultaneously Nozdrev descried our hero and bore down upon him.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The capitulation being in French—a language not understood by any person in the garrison, and being drawn up hastily in the night, contains an expression which was inaccurately translated at the time, and of which advantage has been since taken, by the enemies of Mr. Washington, to imply an admission on his part, that Monsieur Jumonville was assassinated.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

The two miserable men were backed against the posts and firmly secured, their arms being drawn up high above their heads and stretched to the utmost.
— from Golden Face: A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford

Having finished his analysis, Berthollet drew up his results in a Report, which he accompanied with a written explanation of his views; and he there stated, in the plainest language, that nothing poisonous was mixed with the brandy, but that it had been diluted with water holding small particles of slate in suspension, an ingredient which filtration would remove.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

The wealth of Wiley, and Charlton's equivocation, attached suspicion to his motives, and brought down upon him the wrath of Jackson, blighting all his future aspirations.
— from The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by W. H. (William Henry) Sparks