Upon no one in the whole country did the news fall with more stunning effect than upon poor Stubbs at Riddsley.
— from The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

And his hostess graciously accorded him a permission, while her heart sank—at least she experienced that unpleasant physical sensation of heaviness somewhere in the diaphragm which poets have christened heart-sinking!
— from The Man and the Moment by Elinor Glyn

Fortuna ” 8,000 St. Joseph ” 12,000 La Virgine Assumpto ” 6,000 Apollo ” 15,000 Signora del Purificatione ” 40,000 Fawket ” 1,100 Gustavus Adolphus ” 1,000 A Settee ” 600 A Ship with Naval Stores ” 40,000 On February 26, 1805, Gillray published ‘The Plumb Pudding in danger; or State Epicures taking un Petit Souper—’ the great globe itself, and all which it inherits, 40 ‘is too small to satisfy such insatiable appetites.’
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ashton