| 1. | Out there fell a cascade of children's bricks. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 2. | The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | A continual cascade played at the bows a ceaseless whirling eddy in her wake and, at the slightest motion from within, even but of a little finger, the vibrating, cracking craft canted over her spasmodic gunwale into the sea. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 4. | At a less advanced season of the year the typhoon, according to a famous meteorologist, would have passed away like a luminous cascade of electric flame but in the winter equinox it was to be feared that it would burst upon them with great violence. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |