One drop of blood, one single drop, came out of the white feathers of the angel's wings and fell upon the ship in which the prince sat, burnt into it, and weighed upon it like thousands of hundredweights, dragging it rapidly down to the earth again; the strong wings of the eagles gave way, the wind roared round the prince's head, and the clouds around—were they formed by the smoke rising up from the burnt cities?—took strange shapes, like crabs many, many miles long, which stretched their claws out after him, and rose up like enormous rocks, from which rolling masses dashed down, and became fire-spitting dragons.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I trembled at the first effects of this intelligence: he half rose up, looked eagerly round the apartment, and then sank back in a swoon.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

EASY DOUBLE CROSS-WORD ACROSTIC .—Initials, Birch; finals, Maple; horizontals, BeaM, IdA, RomP, CorraL, HousE. SQUARE-WORD .—Ruler, Unite, Lithe, Ethel, Reels.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 by Various

Mrs. Vyvian was to go with them and remain until Lord Earle returned.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

She reached up, like Eve reaching to the apples on the tree of knowledge, and she kissed him, though her passion was a transcendent fear of the thing he was, touching his face with her infinitely delicate, encroaching wondering fingers.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

On the one side were the Vermont snow-crowned and cloud-capped mountains, rising up like eternal ramparts against all eastern hostile incursions of the elements.
— from The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. by Hugh Quigley