Kohiseva Rapids are a lordly sight in spring, when the river is full.
— from The Song of the Blood-Red Flower by Johannes Linnankoski

It seemed to have grown intensely hot too, for the faint current of cool air that they had felt since entering the place had stopped for some time past, and still the water kept rising, and at last seemed to come through the narrowing opening with so horrible a gurgling rush that it affected even stolid Josh, who took his cap off and said that it was “a gashly ugly noise.”
— from Menhardoc by George Manville Fenn

As Amelius looked out, he observed that some person at that moment in the kitchen required apparently a large supply of fresh air.
— from The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins