The turmoil of it reached us like a sound of mockery in which we had no part; and, gazing down into the silent grave, I felt that it was well indeed with him who lay therein.
— from The Black Box: A Tale of Monmouth's Rebellion by W. Bourne Cooke

In some, as in a species figured by Madame Merian, that feeds upon the Annona squamosa , it is rolled up like a serpent in many folds [609] .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll.
— from Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou

A second portion of the inhabitants became engaged in raising, upon limited areas, small crops, garden vegetables and orchard fruits, and in producing butter, milk, poultry and eggs, for the suoply of the cities and manufacturing towns which had been built up out of the abundant profits of the primitive agriculture.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Some of them indeed gave their evidence in rather unmilitary language, and seemed to be unduely impressed with the magnitude of that war: but their meaning was good!
— from Walladmor, Vol. 2 (of 2) "Freely Translated into German from the English of Sir Walter Scott." And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. by Willibald Alexis

Yes—base, mean, low, unartistic, degrading as is this passion, I felt it rise up like a snake in my breast when I saw that feeble woman.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various

It rose up like a spectre in the night, it seemed almost visible.
— from In God's Way: A Novel by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson