But at the second when he seemed to crumple all together, falling as an empty sack falls, some involuntary jerk of his finger sent a bullet zooming into the cave.
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

Now, a cold where you merely weep and sneeze and sniff and blow your nose which by degrees becomes somewhat like a burning Zeppelin—by the way, if you never have seen a burning Zeppelin, I take this opportunity to inform you that it is, of course, like the splendid, brilliant, luminous, glaring nose of one who has such a cold—such a cold may [140] be called a bad cold, but it is not.
— from My Austrian Love The History of the Adventures of an English Composer in Vienna. Written in the Trenches by Himself by Maxime Provost

The scheme adopted by Zedner, in his British Museum catalogue, has been followed as far as the peculiarities of our author and his subject, and its presentation in a modern language, permitted it.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 6 (of 6) Containing a Memoir of the Author by Dr. Philip Bloch, a Chronological Table of Jewish History, an Index to the Whole Work by Heinrich Graetz

My own power is small; my relations, during my sufferings, limiting me to an annuity; but there is no one I scruple to solicit, and by zeal I supply ability.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

The Extraordinary Commission, spoken of with such abhorrence by Zorinsky, is the most notorious of all Bolshevist institutions.
— from Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia by Paul Dukes