An insect called the Water-boatman is itself both boat and oars, besides being its own passenger; the legs with which it rows are fashioned in most exact resemblance to the blade of an oar; or we should rather say that the blade of an oar resembles the leg of this Water-boatman.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 736, February 2, 1878 by Various

The stranger should come into Rochester preferably on the evening of a summer’s day, and, as first impressions must ever remain the most distinct, he should walk in over the bridge.
— from The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

So also, amidst the destruction of the flight of so many men charged with watching over and providing for the public safety, others were seen, who, well in body and firm in mind, ever remained faithful at their post, and some even, who, by an admirable self-devotion, sustained with heroic constancy cares to which their duty did not call them.
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

[26] The article of the Constitutional Act, vesting the sovereignty of Corsica in the king of Great Britain, runs as follows:— “Il Monarca, e Rè della Corsica, è sua Maestà Giorgio III.,
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester