In the same sense the transcendental philosopher says; grant me a nature having two contrary forces, the one of which tends to expand infinitely, while the other strives to apprehend or find itself in this infinity, and I will cause the world of intelllgences with the whole system of their representations to rise up before you.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

While in quest of these, the blue heron, the large and small brown heron, the boatbill and muscovy duck now and then rise up before you.
— from Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton

Because you've listened to the men who've set out to ruin us both, you and me.
— from The Trail of the Axe: A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum

The poor young man getting no answer, save Tusher's, to that letter which he had written, and being too proud to write more, opened a part of his heart to Steele, than whom no man, when unhappy, could find a kinder hearer or more friendly emissary; described (in words which were no doubt pathetic, for they came imo pectore , and caused honest Dick to weep plentifully) his youth, his constancy, his fond devotion to that household which had reared him; his affection how earned, and how tenderly requited until but yesterday, and (as far as he might) the circumstances and causes for which that sad quarrel had made of Esmond a prisoner under sentence, a widow and orphans of those whom in life he held dearest.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

But the redskins understood— Bet your life they always would!—
— from Frontier Ballads by Joseph Mills Hanson

“You’ll have time to rest up before you see him,” the girl replied kindly.
— from Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

I expect you wanted money to fix that ranch up; but you’ll get further by doing a little irrigating from up that stream than by trying to be a bandit.
— from The Coyote A Western Story by James Roberts

While in quest of these, the blue heron, the large and small brown heron, the boat-bill, and Muscovy duck now and then rise up before you.
— from Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton

Can you not see the road unwinding before you like a reel of [46] white ribbon, hear the sweet musical drone of the wheels in your ears——" He stopped abruptly.
— from The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster

Imagine yourself on that jury, not knowing Marlowe, and trembling with indignation at the record unrolled before you—cupidity, murder, robbery, sudden cowardice, shameless, impenitent, desperate lying!
— from The Woman in Black by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley