The head, heavy with luminous brown hair, careens gently upon one cheek; that ineffably sweet dissolution into all nature and space comes again, and far up among the dream-clouds, just as she is about to recognize certain happy faces, there is a rush of sound, a flood of consternation, a start, a tumbling in of consciousness, the five senses leap to their stations, and she sits upright fluttering her fan and glancing round upon the seated congregation.
"John March, Southerner"
George W. Cable
Trade-winds from the south-east; a huge tumbling of mountain-purple waves;-the steamer careens under a full spread of canvas.
"Two Years in the French West Indies"
Lafcadio Hearn