Our fleet would then seem to threaten New York, and we should find, on our arrival, pilots for different destinations, and the necessary signals and counter signs.~{3} If Rhode Island should be the proper point of attack, of which I have no doubt, we would steer southward towards evening, and, putting about during the night, land at Block Island, and lay siege to Newport.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

Four or five horses were lifted and blown into a lot some distance from where they had been stabled.
— from Sawdust & Spangles: Stories & Secrets of the Circus by W. C. (William Cameron) Coup

These words, like air breathed in after long suffocation under water, cleared Franklin's mind.
— from Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick