Mountain and cliff, and pebbly strand.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

After this has been well packed down and filled in as closely as possible, set up your water-screws, wheels, and drums, and let the space now bounded by the enclosure be emptied and dried.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

When more than two things are compared, the superlative is used to represent a quality as belonging in the highest degree to an individual or to a number of a class: as, proximī sunt Germānīs , 1, 1, 3, they live the nearest to the Germans .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

As “sitters” they occasionally find a job in the saloons about Chatham and Pearl Streets on cold winter nights, when the hallway is not practicable, that enables them to pick up a charity drink now and then and a bite of an infrequent sandwich.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

We took a coach, and Patu said to the driver, “To Chaillot.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In company with a Jesuit missionary he gathered about him a number of native boys and conducted a practical school on the German plan, at the same time indulging in religious polemics with his Jesuit acquaintances by correspondence and working fitfully on some compositions which were never completed, noteworthy among them being a study in English of the Tagalog verb.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

It would be a mistake to suppose that the periodical press has always been entirely free in the American colonies: an attempt was made to establish something analogous to a censorship and preliminary security.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Take of the Juice of Citrons, strained without expression, and cleansed, a pound, Sugar two pounds, make it into a Syrup like Syrup of Clove-gilliflowers.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The latter, all taken up as he was with the wench and his exceeding pleasure and delight in her company, was none the less on his guard and himseeming he heard some scuffling of feet in the dormitory, he set his eye to a crevice and plainly saw the abbot stand hearkening unto him; whereby he understood but too well that the latter must have gotten wind of the wench's presence in his cell and knowing that sore punishment would ensue to him thereof, he was beyond measure chagrined.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The first historical instance, perhaps, of destruction of property under the police power was the blowing up of buildings to check a conflagration, a practice still common, although its utility was much questioned after the Boston fire, and which, at common law at least, gave the owner no right to compensation; but the more usual use of the police power until very recent years has been limited to the prohibition of offensive trades in certain localities, and the suppression of public nuisances.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

Half a dozen men provided with well greased saws first landed under Dick Balderson's command, and cleared a passage six feet wide to the path; then the landing began in earnest.
— from Among Malay Pirates : a Tale of Adventure and Peril by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Hence the words “matter” and “form,” as employed by us, have such a clear and precise sense that no room is left for their misinterpretation.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

He smiled across at Anna, and she stood up and came a perilous step towards him.
— from Rope by Holworthy Hall

Being found to be a convenient and productive source of revenue, they continued to gain ground, and in 1919 yielded £59,663,000.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various