speak up, shout &c. (vociferate) 411; bellow &c. (cry as an animal) 412. rend the air, rend the skies; fill the air; din in the ear, ring in the ear, thunder in the ear; pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the ears, split the head; deafen, stun; faire le diable a quatre[Fr]; make one's windows shake, rattle the windows; awaken the echoes, startle the echoes; wake the dead.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Nothing is any use; let the earth sink to perdition!" "Misuce, go out of the room!" said Lida to her sister, apparently thinking my words pernicious to the young girl.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Galloway went to the drawing-room and told the terrible news tactfully enough, so that by the time the company assembled there the ladies were already startled and already soothed.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“That would take a long time to explain,” said the Stork, and with these words off he went.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

set the teeth on edge, corcher les oreilles[Fr]; pierce the ears, split the ears, split the head; offend the ear, grate upon the ear, jar upon the ear.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The Byzantine empire, since the accession of the Basilian race, had reposed in peace and dignity; and they might encounter with their entire strength the front of some petty emir, whose rear was assaulted and threatened by his national foes of the Mahometan faith.
— 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

But the most formidable difficulties were encountered at the centre and toward the edges of the Moss, and it required no small degree of ingenuity and perseverance on the part of the engineer successfully to overcome them.
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

The ballad itself, which takes us all through the Border, from Bewcastle on the English side, to the fair Dodhead on Upper Ettrick, is not of the period of the incidents described.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang

The Emperor, striking the ground with his stick, and darting a furious look to heaven, pronounced these words, "It is then written above that we shall now commit nothing but faults!"
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

My publisher can vouch for me, that the tragedy was written and sent to England some time before I had seen Lady Morgan's work, which I only received on the 16th of August.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

They made the earth seem to man, north and south, east and west, as man never before had imagined it.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

Another time, when Bobbie went to play out on the dock He fell into the water there, (he'd stumbled on a block); I sprang in after him, of course, and dragged him back to land— Then everybody said the way I acted was "just grand."
— from With the Colors Songs of the American Service by Everard Jack Appleton

The desolate driving cloud might lower and frown, And winds were up the eddying sleet to chase, That drave and drave and found no settling-place?
— from Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Jean Ingelow

Another quotation from the same pen reads: “So far as other perils to the British Empire are concerned, they are of much the same character, but the empire suffers too from the selfish policy of English business, which, in order to create big business, does not hesitate to interfere with the declared policy of the state.”
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier

The result of this examination seemed to soften him a little.
— from Lizzy Glenn; Or, The Trials of a Seamstress by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

We encourage the timid or despondent, succor the endangered, support the weak, uphold those who else might be shaken or cast down.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald