The helm was at last put into his hand; and it was then that he felt the difference between terra firma and the wild and restless element which he was now to control.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

Friday," mused the Resurrection Man, as he sipped his quantum of flip from a tumbler, with a relish equal to that evinced by his companion: "let's see—what's the fare to-day in Clerkenwell Prison?"
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Looking around, I was still more perplexed, for only a few feet away there was a rectangular enclosure which looked like the ruined foundations of a house.
— from A Boy Crusoe; or, The Golden Treasure of the Virgin Islands by Allan Eric

‘Forthwith as the winds are rising, either the channels of the sea begin to boil and swell, and a dry crashing sound to be heard on the lofty mountains, or the shores to echo far with a confused noise, and the uproar of the woods to wax louder.’
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar