| 1. | She is almost entirely in ballast of silver sand, with only a small amount of cargo, a number of great wooden boxes filled with mould. - from Dracula by Bram Stoker |
| 2. | So saw I fluctuate in successive change Th' unsteady ballast of the seventh hold And here if aught my tongue have swerv'd, events So strange may be its warrant. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 3. | My ties and ballasts leave me, my elbows rest in sea-gaps. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |