One lawyer after another was sent out to run up the steps and let himself be thrown down again, offering what resistance he could as long as it was passive resistance, and his colleagues would catch him at the bottom of the steps.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Tesno caught him at the base of the skull with a short brutal rabbit-punch that dropped him open-mouthed and motionless in the filthy sawdust of the floor.
— from The High Hander by William Oliver Turner

He had even taken part in one grand operatic rendition of the work, when the audience had been half strangled by the too realistic fumes from the altar, and the chorus, huddled at the back of the stage, had sung the Rain Chorus off the key, to the accompaniment of the torrent which poured down in a thin sheet just back of the curtain, raining neither on the just nor on the unjust, but falling accurately into the groove for [Pg 178] the footlights between them.
— from The Dominant Strain by Anna Chapin Ray

General Kuropatkin, the Russian Commander-in-Chief, had at the beginning of the struggle an army of 300,000 infantry; 26,700 cavalry, and 1,368 guns.
— from The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East by Sydney Tyler

To all of this John replied with bland smiles and polite bows, hoping that the effects of the interview might not render him feverish, and reminding him that if it did he was in a better position than most men for cooling himself at the bottom of the sea.
— from Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

St. George, who had had several talks with them, was puzzled and doubtful, and more than once confided to himself that the lives of the passenger list of The Aloha might be worth no more than coral headstones at the bottom of the South Atlantic.
— from Romance Island by Zona Gale

Feeling like a prisoner set free, he hurried as fast as bare feet and stiff legs would carry him along the bed of the stream, coming at last into the welcome shelter of the woods, which seemed more beautiful than ever, after the bleak region of granite in which he had been all night.
— from Spinning-Wheel Stories by Louisa May Alcott

They say 'tis shut up in three caskets, hidden at the bottom of the sea.
— from Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux by Eugène Brieux

[Pg 85] in which we were almost completely hidden at the bottom of the slope.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

The corporations have apparently the best of the situation because existing institutions are more favorable to the interests of the corporations than to the interests of the unionists; but on the other hand, the unions have the immense advantage of a great and increasing numerical strength.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly