| 1. | A low rumbling sound was heard a subterraneous hum and then all held their breaths as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 2. | He stopped, sniffed, stalked round it, brother, nosing closer, went round it, sniffling rapidly like a dog all over the dead dog's bedraggled fell. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |