When at evening the winds come swelling from the east, and the great pall of the city's smoke hangs wearily above the valley, then the red west glows like a dreamland down Carlisle Street, and, at the tolling of the supper-bell, throws the passing forms of students in dark silhouette against the sky.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Serafina re-embarked in Madam Clement's convenience, with that good lady and Don Diego, while Renaldo, with the clergyman and doctor, followed in Joshua's coach, to a pleasant country-house upon the Thames, at a distance of a few miles from London.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And in the height of this bath, when I was more than half-stew'd in grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into the Thames, and cool'd, glowing hot, in that surge, like a horse-shoe; think of that -hissing hot.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

During the day a boat belonging to one of the Dutch men-of-war, with two men in her, got loose and drifted down with the tide towards the town.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne[Fr]; rigor mortis[Lat]; Stygian shore.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

A rich Muhammadan woman has a long shirt of muslin or net in different colours, embroidered on the neck and shoulders with gold lace, and draping down to the ankles.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

4.—Governor Roberts, General Lewis, and Doctor Day, dined with us in the ward-room.
— from Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa by Horatio Bridge

"There are at this hour," continued the stranger, "two brave gentlemen lying sadly in their beds, while we chat gayly at the ball; and that because a certain Chevalier d'Harmental, a great listener at doors, did not remember a hemistich of Virgil."
— from The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas

the watery light Of the moon in its old age; concerning which moon he goes on to describe how: Green-rheumed clouds were hurrying past where mute and cold it globed Like a dying dolphin's eye seen through a lapping wave.
— from Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd

dyng 10 With a gret quhyn, or roch of cragy stone, Ane Lucetyus, and brak hys nek bone, As that he dyd approche towartis the ȝet, The hait flammys of fyre tharin to set: Liger a Troiane from the wall also 15 Doun bet a Rutiliane hait Emathio: A Phrigiane eik, Asylas, stern and stowt, All tofruschit Choryneus withowt, Quhilk was in dartis castyng wonder sle; On far to schute scharp flanys and lat fle 20 Nane mar expert than this Emathio: Ceneus ourquhelmyt Ortygius also; And this Ceneus, quhilk than gat the mastry, Belyve Turnus with a dart ded gart ly: And down dyngis alsso this ilk
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

Instead of burying him in his clothes, as was directed, he was dragged on the ground like a dead dog, round to the other side of the chapel, and there stripped, laid on a board, and washed all over with brine; his head cleaned, and his hair combed, and then wrapped up in a clean sheet.
— from Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline, with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John, of Vermont