As an example of their use, suppose that an astronomer at a little German University should discover a law regulating the stars in clusters.
— from The Future of Astronomy by Edward C. (Edward Charles) Pickering

At first there seemed no one to do this save Hannibal, who at once set to work, but she soon observed a man with a lantern gathering up some butter-tubs that the boat was landing, and she immediately appealed to him for help.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

We at last got up some way above the spot where we had seen the deer, and after relaxing our efforts for a minute or two to regain strength, we directed the canoe straight across the stream.
— from Snow Shoes and Canoes Or, The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Now, although the Abbe Gabriel may have suddenly conceived a very bad opinion of us, he will at least give us some time to show that his gifts have been disposed of according to his wishes, and applied to the Greater Glory of the Lord."
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 05 by Eugène Sue

"If the Harleigh men won't go out, they will at least give us some food for a Christmas dinner," says a miner whose hollow cheeks tell of long fasting.
— from The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin A Political Novel of the Twentieth Century by Francis Alexandre Adams

While the military rank to which its members found themselves suddenly elevated was not so lofty as to cause any attacks of vertigo, none having been up to the present day reported, it at least gives us satisfaction to realize that help may thus be afforded from private life, and that a closer rapport has been effected.
— from The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park

The element of force being virtually eliminated, intelligence at last gained undivided sway; and the ideal statecraft of Machiavelli was realized with more or less completeness in all parts of the peninsula.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

A few days ago, not more than half a mile from where we were standing, he was crossing a field when a lark got up singing near him and went singing over his head.
— from A Traveller in Little Things by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

The appointment of the generals Washington and Lee gives universal satisfaction.
— from Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

Though more wretches have been pulled out of the mire by mission churches than by any other agency, the masses are “lapsed,” “gone under,” sunk on the whole to lower depths than the ministerial plummet can sound, and the ministers, most of whom are hampered by the existing necessities of large congregations, are not directly responsible for a condition of things which is a disgrace to Scottish Christianity.
— from Notes on Old Edinburgh by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird