And all the time we got closer to the sea and the exhaust roared nearer and nearer—until finally we floated with the ropes still holding us from above, the exhaust washing us away and the force of the tide driving us back against the side,—the latter not of much account in influencing the direction, however.
— from The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley

So, full of terror, she thought she stood there, 3 helplessly, while the engine rushed nearer and nearer, puffing forth vast clouds of black smoke, and roaring and hissing and clanking.
— from Every Girl's Book by George Frank Butler

And this but led to the consideration of the Church's claims to elevate rational nature and natural virtue to that divine order which is above nature, and which is organic in the Catholic Church.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

But, all the same, he walked the floor of the east rooms nearly all night, and kept Sophia awake to listen to his complaints.
— from The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral Romance by Amelia E. Barr

If this acid and base were fluid, and combination took place at c , with an affinity ever so vigorous, and capable of originating an electric current, the current could not circulate in any important degree; because, according to the experimental results, neither a nor b could conduct without being decomposed, for they are either electrolytes or else insulators, under all circumstances, except to very feeble and unimportant currents (970. 986.).
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

This distribution represents properly the Rank or Degree of Persons in the Hierarchy of Personality; the Ego ranking naturally as 'Number One.'
— from Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Perhaps they are working at top efficiency right now, and no amount of further subjection to the Confidet will change them.”
— from Confidence Game by James McKimmey