You may have heard of the passage somewhere: “A deep vale, Shut out by Alpine hills from the rude world, Near a clear lake margined by fruits of gold And whispering myrtles: Glassing softest skies, cloudless, Save with rare and roseate shadows; A palace, lifting to eternal heaven its marbled walls, From out a glossy bower of coolest foliage musical with birds.”
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But if I were to attempt a description of his grandeur, and the perfect submission and deep veneration
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

“I perceive,” said Armorer, dryly; “very ingenious and feminine scheme.
— from Stories of a Western Town by Octave Thanet

I disconnect the power sources and do various things to render the device safe.
— from Death's Wisher by Jim Wannamaker

“Arrah, howld your prate,” said a deep voice, “the gentleman hasn't time to bless himself.”
— from Jack Hinton: The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

"Let us pray," said a deep voice from behind the curtain: it was Mark Armsworth's.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

"Antonio Balbini was strangled this morning, and nailed to the wall of the prison," said a deep voice, suddenly.
— from The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I by Jules Lermina

The galley in the first instance was the vessel of men who fought hand to hand, the men in whom personal strength and desperate valour were blended, who desired nothing so much as to come to close grips with their enemy.
— from Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs by E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton) Currey

"Thinkest thou not that he who hath restored thy babe is able likewise to deliver thee from prison?" said a deep voice from out the gloom.
— from Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross by Florence Morse Kingsley

Ben had a greater reverence for his father than for any other person in the world, as well on account of his spotless integrity as of his practical sense and deep views of things.
— from Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") by Nathaniel Hawthorne