Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

In short, after no careless observations, I am compelled to declare, that I never saw two forms less alike than those of Pleasure and Happiness."
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

And now we were agreed, and we remembered the good young days, and the free land, and the times of plenty, and the gladness and sunshine; and we called ourselves brothers, and swore great secrecy, and a mighty oath to cleanse the land of the evil breed that had come upon it.
— from Children of the Frost by Jack London

The mental anxiety was frightful; for, let alone the thoughts of poor Mary’s fate, it was as though death were about to descend upon the watchers from moment to moment, while they were debarred from making a single struggle for life.
— from Adventures of Working Men. From the Notebook of a Working Surgeon by George Manville Fenn

from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The book as it stands is far less ambitious than that originally projected; but it contains much of the contemporary matter which would have provided substance for the wider history; and though it is limited in its scope, it may nevertheless render the important period it covers human and interesting to ordinary readers who seek intellectual amusement, as well as intelligible to students who read for information alone.
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

Vandyck was born in 1599; he visited England for a short time in 1620, and in 1632 he came to England permanently, was lodged by the king, and knighted; in the following year he received a pension of 200 l. for life, and the title of painter to his Majesty.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 243, June 24, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Expedition against Guadaloupe … The Isles de Saintes attacked and taken … The Boyne and Veteran anchor off Grozier … The troops land under cover of the Winchelsea frigate … Captain Lord Garlies wounded … Fort Fleur d'Epée taken by storm … Fort Louis and the town of Point à Pitre taken … Casualties … General description of the island.
— from An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794 Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Cooper Willyams