Our house had collapsed backward; the front portion, even on the ground floor, had been destroyed completely; by a chance the kitchen and scullery had escaped, and stood buried now under soil and ruins, closed in by tons of earth on every side save towards the cylinder.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As several members in one body united, so are reasonable creatures in a body divided and dispersed, all made and prepared for one common operation.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

"It was a spacious harbour, sheltered deep From access of the winds, but looming vast With awful ravage, Ætna's neighbouring steep Thundered aloud, and, dark with clouds, upcast Smoke and red cinders in a whirlwind's blast.
— from The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse by Virgil

It was still somewhat of a Relief to me to come into the Dock, and look upon State and Rich Clothes (in which I have always taken a Gentleman-like pleasure), in the stead of all the dirt and squalor which for so long had been my surrounding.
— from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

[4] [Footnote 1: See the correspondence between the United States and Russia collected in House of Representatives, 51st Congress, 1st Session.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825-1894) by Simon Dubnow