Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

A long bare wall is certainly not so grand an object as a colonnade of the same length and height.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

This also was the shriek of the swift-flying, white, and gigantic birds which issued from the vapory white curtain of the South.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

2 This versicle, found in the booklets of prayer, is common on the scapularies, which, during the late insurrection, were easily converted into the anting-anting , or amulets, worn by the fanatics.—Tr.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Berg smiled meekly, kissed the count on the shoulder, and said that he was very grateful, but that it was impossible for him to arrange his new life without receiving thirty thousand in ready money.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The rest in imitation to like Armes Betook them, and the neighbouring Hills uptore; So Hills amid the Air encounterd Hills Hurl’d to and fro with jaculation dire, That under ground they fought in dismal shade; Infernal noise; Warr seem’d a civil Game To this uproar; horrid confusion heapt Upon confusion rose: and now all Heav’n Had gone to wrack, with ruin overspred, Had not th’ Almightie Father where he sits Shrin’d in his Sanctuarie of Heav’n secure, Consulting on the sum of things, foreseen This tumult, and permitted all, advis’d:
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

He opened his mouth to shout, and the corner of the sheet was thrust between his teeth.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I endeavour to flatter death by these frivolous circumstances; or, to say better, to discharge myself from all other incumbrances, that I may have nothing to do, nor be troubled with anything but that which will lie heavy enough upon me without any other load.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

To proceed beyond the universal bond of our common humanity, there is the closer one of belonging to the same people, tribe, and tongue, by which men are very closely bound together; it is a still closer relation to be citizens of the same city-state; for fellow-citizens have much in common—forum, temples, colonnades, streets, statutes, laws, courts, rights of suffrage, to say nothing of social and friendly circles and diverse business relations with many.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Something like the second will probably be formed—indeed I am certain that nothing less than what will give the fœderal sovereignty a compleat controul over the state Governments, will be thought worthy of discussion—such a scheme constructed upon well adjusted principles would certainly give us stability and importance as a nation, and if the Executive powers can be sufficiently checked, must be eligible—unless the whole has a decided influence over the parts, the constant effort will be to resume the delegated powers, and there cannot be an inducement in the fœderal sovereignty to refuse its assent to an innocent act of a State....
— from The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1 by United States. Constitutional Convention (1787)

[15] The spinal marrow, within the canal of the sixth vertebra dorsi, was completely destroyed by a musket ball.
— from An Essay on the Shaking Palsy by James Parkinson

Hence the custom which prohibits the commerce of the sexes while the worms are hatching may be only an extension, by analogy, of the rule which is observed by many races, that the husband may not cohabit with his wife during pregnancy and lactation.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The greatest victory of these early years was the Master’s success in constructing on Mount Carmel, on the spot designated for it by Bahá’u’lláh and through immense effort, a mausoleum for the remains of the Báb, which had been brought at great risk and difficulty to the Holy Land.
— from Century of Light by Bahá'í International Community

In the inner layer, enclosing the cavity of the stomach, there are cells containing a clear liquid with coloured particles floating in it, which is supposed to perform the part of a liver; and, as the Hydræ have no respiratory organs, their juices are aërated through their skin.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 2 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

The mode of proceeding should be that in a short time his Royal Highness should signify his intention to act by directing a meeting of the Privy Council, when he should declare his intention to take upon himself the care of the state, and should at the same time signify his desire to have the advice of Parliament, and order it by proclamation to meet early for the despatch of business....
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

But popular resentment, the bitter cry of the starving, applied the same name to all of them: from Louis XV to the inconspicuous monk they were all accapareurs de blé , cornerers of wheat.
— from The French Revolution: A Short History by R. M. (Robert Matteson) Johnston

Peety had got as far as the market-house—which was about the centre of the street—on his way, we say, to the post-office, when he met his daughter Nanny, who, after a few words of inquiry, asked him where he was going.
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

We have in the case of each a sort of insinuation as to the cause of the spirited character of the performances, and in that of our friend with the trombone it seems a good deal more clear that his pocket has contributed to the supply of his instrument than that his instrument will ever do much for the supply of his pocket.
— from The Book of Christmas Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas Season by Thomas K. Hervey