Under the water it rumbled on, Still louder and more dread: It reach'd the Ship, it split the bay; The Ship went down like lead. Stunn'd by that loud and dreadful sound, Which sky and ocean smote: Like one that hath been seven days drown'd My body lay afloat: But, swift as dreams, myself I found Within the Pilot's boat.
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

Insensibly the young man drew nigher to the swarthy lines of the Hurons, and scarcely breathed, so intense became his interest in the spectacle.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

It has based ethics on the foundation on which actual morality rests; on nature, on the necessities of social life, on the human instincts of sympathy and justice.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Stunned by that loud and dreadful sound, Which sky and ocean smote, Like one that hath been seven days drowned
— from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Many times we find great diversity of air in the same [3063] country, by reason of the site to seas, hills or dales, want of water, nature of soil, and the like: as in Spain Arragon is aspera et sicca , harsh and evil inhabited; Estremadura is dry, sandy, barren most part, extreme hot by reason of his plains; Andalusia another paradise; Valencia a most pleasant air, and continually green; so is it about [3064] Granada, on the one side fertile plains, on the other, continual snow to be seen all summer long on the hill tops.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It struck him, as the gulf of water closed, how small she looked on that huge ship.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The rebellion of the Isaurians, which may serve to reflect a strong light on the horrid picture.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Kezia rolled off her bed; she couldn't bear it any longer, and lightly she leapt on to her grandma's knees, clasped her hands round the old woman's throat and began kissing her, under the chin, behind the ear, and blowing down her neck.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

There has been a large amount of evidence taken, some part of it conducing to show that at some localities occasionally there have been some irregularities and temporary disaffection; yet the main direction and weight of the testimony are ample and conclusive to show that the great body of the people in said State are not only loyal and willing, but anxious, to have and maintain amicable, sincere, and patriotic relations with the General Government.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

It then occurred to the corporal, that if the pistol were aimed at Smallbones, and he was uninjured, it would greatly add to the idea, already half entertained by the superstitious lieutenant, of there hem something supernatural about Smallbones, if he were loft to suppose that he had been killed, and had reappeared.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

On the air was borne the crying Of the hurrying, the fleeing, Through the air the sad lamenting Of the helpless and deserted, Cries of anguish and of terror, Wails of suff’ring and despairing.
— from The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky To the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

Mildred Moore had just passed her fourteenth birthday, but she was so big and strong that she looked older than her age.
— from A Girl in Spring-Time by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Then they went to the smithy, where Mrs Maggot knew her husband had concealed two large kegs of smuggled liquor on the hearth under a heap of ashes and iron débris, but these had been so cleverly, yet carelessly, hidden that the men sat down on the heap under which they lay, to rest and wipe their heated brows after their fruitless search.
— from Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The room she was in was exquisitely neat and clean, there were some fine engravings on the walls, the furniture was of quaint design, and there were a few vases and ornaments; yet it was neither the almost royal grandeur of Queen's Chase nor the simple luxury of the hotel at Bergheim.
— from The Shadow of a Sin by Charlotte M. Brame

These people are all clothed; and they found that they had some light of the holy faith, for that they made signe vnto God, looking vp vnto heauen, and they do cal him in their language Apalito , and doo acknowledge him for Lord, by whose mightie hand and mercie they confesse to haue receiued life, and to be a natural man, and al temporall goods.
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 2 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza

In retrospective glance over a very midsummer night's dream of the ineffable glory and beauty of wanderings from Pike's Peak to the Pacific there stands out to the mental vision one treasured possession whose loveliness exceeds that of all scenic landscape; which is more luminous and crystal clear than the luminous atmosphere of beautiful Colorado or glowing Arizona; which is more enduring in its changelessness than even the Petrified Forests or the mighty precipices of the Grand Cañon; which is invested with all the etherial splendor of that brilliant young city which the Spanish conquerors knew as Pueblo de la Reine de los Angeles : which is as sacred in its nature as are the sacred legends of the Holy Faith of St. Francis.
— from The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific by Lilian Whiting