Flush's breathing is my loudest sound, and then the watch's tickings, and then my own heart when it beats too turbulently.
"The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)"
Frederic G. Kenyon
The cavalcade with difficulty mounted the steps of a mountainous hill, where the storm raged so turbulently that the men who carried the litter stopped, and told their lord it would be impossible to proceed in the approaching darkness; they conjured him to look at the perpendicular rocks, rendered indistinct by the gathering mist; to observe the overwhelming gusts of the tempest; and then judge whether they dare venture with the litter on so dangerous a pathway, made slippery by descending rain!
"The Scottish Chiefs"
Jane Porter
It seemed that my brain was fired with the intensity of all these dead men's ambition, that my heart in sympathy beat more turbulently with the throb of their dead hearts; I felt growing within me, irresistibly, what I did not dare, for fear it might not be possible, to confide to Bradley-a determination, even in the face of peril, to essay the Pole!
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook