—En el extremo sur se extiende una meseta desprovista de árboles excepto en la parte más austral, donde aquéllos reaparecen, gracias a la humedad que, como le expliqué ya, traen los vientos del Pacífico.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Servants dropped the dishes and ran, gentlemen and ladies following them rushed from the table, over chairs and each other, crowding for the doors and windows: and had there been danger of a sudden overwhelming of the house, and the destruction of all the inhabitants, we could not have fled in greater haste and confusion than we now did, to see the descending “thunderbolt of snow.”
— from Letters from Switzerland by Samuel Irenæus Prime

His mingled prayers and blasphemies, hymns and horrid songs, defiance and remorse, groans and laughter, made everyone hate and avoid him.
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

Despite a raging gale, a long-range battle ensued, resulting in the defeat of the British and the loss of the flagship Good Hope, with the admiral and all her crew, and of the cruiser Monmouth.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

Loose him, Zebedee!" Freed of his bonds, Mr. Dalroyd stretched himself, re-settled his damp and rumpled garments, and lounged back in his chair.
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

"No, he is not dead," answered Roger gravely; "at least, if he is I haven't heard of it.
— from The Castle Of The Shadows by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Of course these three stages may at some future time be analyzed into lesser degrees, with useful result—but at present I only desire to draw attention to them in the rough, so to speak, to show that it is from them and from their passage one into another that there has flowed by a perfectly natural logic and concatenation the strange panorama of humanity's religious evolution—its superstitions and magic and sacrifices and dancings and ritual generally, and later its incantations and prophecies, and services of speech and verse, and paintings and forms of art and figures of the gods.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

After proceeding twenty lis, we met, at a turn of the mountain, in a deep and retired gorge, a little party of travellers, who presented a picture full of poetry: The procession was opened by a Thibetian woman astride a fine donkey, and carrying an infant, solidly fastened to her shoulders by large leathern straps.
— from Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 2 by Evariste Régis Huc