| 1. | As a natural consequence, its velocity was also much greater. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | I traveled with awful velocity for my errand was a race against time with death. - from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| 3. | I think I have told you that when I set out, before my velocity became very high, Mrs. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 4. | The harpoon was darted the stricken whale flew forward with igniting velocity the line ran through the grooves--ran foul. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 5. | The two great sails were hoisted, and under the pressure of the wind the sledge slid over the hardened snow with a velocity of forty miles an hour. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 6. | Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 7. | It had occurred towards midnight of the twelfth and the spectroscope, to which he had at once resorted, indicated a mass of flaming gas, chiefly hydrogen, moving with an enormous velocity towards this earth. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 8. | Rising with his utmost velocity from the furthest depths, the Sperm Whale thus booms his entire bulk into the pure element of air, and piling up a mountain of dazzling foam, shows his place to the distance of seven miles and more. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 9. | It was thus with the Pequod's at almost every shock the helmsman had not failed to notice the whirling velocity with which they revolved upon the cards it is a sight that hardly anyone can behold without some sort of unwonted emotion. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |