Kate's spirits sank to the very bottom of her being and began to prowl around there making a low growling noise.

-Adams, Douglas Noe«  l
  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, ch.1.

They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Of Englishmen. English Traits,'Manners'.

O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first?'

-Graham, Harry
  Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes,'Calculating Clara'.

Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him, for within him hell He brings, and round about him, nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly.

-Milton,John
  Of Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.18^22.

Iguess I'mjust anoldmad scientist at bottom.Givemean underground laboratory, half a dozen atomsmashers, and a beautiful girl in a diaphanous veil waiting to be turned into a chimpanzee, and I care not who writes the nation's laws.

-Perelman, S(ydney) J(oseph)
  Crazy Like a Fox,'Captain Future, BlockThat Kick'.

People ask me why I ride with my bottom in the air.Well, I've got to put it somewhere.

-Piggott, Lester Keith
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

   I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

-Porter, Cole
  'You're theTop', from the show Anything Goes.

Ye ken weel eneugh that women and gear are at the bottom of a'the mischief in this warld.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Rob Roy to Francis Osbaldistone. Rob Roy, ch.35.