EARTHQUAKE

1. Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
   In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
   Is with a kind of colic pinch'd and vex'd
   By the imprisoning of unruly wind
   Within her womb; which, for enlargement striving,
   Shakes the old beldam earth and topples down
   Steeples and moss-grown towers.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV

2. With hue like that when some great painter dips
   His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.—SHELLEY, Revolt of Islam
   

3. With a voice, that like a bell
   Toll'd by an earthquake in a trembling tower,
   Rang ruin.—TENNYSON, The Princess