A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear; No light, no fire: th’unfriendly elements Forgot thee utterly; nor have I time To give thee hallow’d to thy grave, but straight Must cast thee, scarcely coffin’d, in the ooze; Where, for a monument upon thy bones, And e’er-remaining lamps, the belching whale And humming water must o’erwhelm thy corpse, Lying with simple shells.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Years ago he went out to help work these great deposits and has climbed up until now he is the virtual head of the island.
— from In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon

And a good one he proved; and he has gone on and on, in the minds as well as in the hearts of his fellow-citizens, until now he is the colleague of Senator Teller, and he offers another typical illustration of true American integrity and honorable ambition and success.
— from The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific by Lilian Whiting

And now this unhappy prince went to take a last view of his dear wife, and as he looked on his Thaisa, he said, "A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear; no light, no fire; the unfriendly elements forget thee utterly, nor have I time to bring thee hallowed to thy grave, but must cast thee scarcely coffined into the sea, where for a monument upon thy bones the humming waters must overwhelm thy corpse, lying with simple shells.
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

In a chamber under Lycia’s far coast, Than any high god Who touches us not Here in the seeded grass.
— from Des Imagistes: An Anthology by Various

And now this unhappy prince went to take a last view of his dear wife, and as he looked on his Thaisa he said: “A terrible childbed hast thou had, my dear; no light, no fire; the unfriendly elements forget thee utterly, nor have I time to bring thee hallowed to thy grave, but must cast thee scarcely coffined into the sea, where for a monument upon thy bones the humming waters must overwhelm thy corpse, lying with simple shells.
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

It can do us no harm if they take away the wounded, and it's possible they'll go back to the harbor island, if the injured can be carried off!"
— from Defending the Island: A story of Bar Harbor in 1758 by James Otis

Mr. Darwin gave us no help in this respect; and worse than this, he contradicted himself so flatly as to show that he had very little definite idea upon the subject at all.
— from Essays on Life, Art and Science by Samuel Butler

On the contrary a love of order and neatness, carried to absurd excess, has always led me to destroy accumulated letters or documents, and much that would be useful now has in the past, from time to time, been destroyed and “cast as rubbish to the void.”
— from Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow