For as when we are woke by a great and bright light, everything that the soul has seen in dreams is vanished and fled, so the Sun is wont to banish the remembrance of past changes and chances, and to bewitch the intelligence, pleasure and admiration causing this forgetfulness.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

The Inebriate died, under a strong pressure of delirium tremens, groaning and braying loud enough to scare away the fiends which gathered around.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

All six form a breakfast sufficiently hearty for a stone mason or a piano mover; one or two give a breakfast light enough to tempt those who eat no breakfast at all.
— from The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed

From Gardanne a branch line extends to Carnoules, 52 m. S.E., on the line between Marseilles and Cannes ( p. 142 ), on which the only towns of interest are Brignoles and St. Maximin.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

He saw the swarming savage faces, scowling beneath their war adornments, the tossing shields and uplifted assegais, as that dark crowd surged forward, eyeballs glaring and blades lifted, eager to redden the latter in the blood of a hated and now helpless enemy.
— from In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford