Grostête, Roger Bacon, and Michael Scott, all pursued the exact route ascribed to Chaucer.
— from Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies. Volume I by Anonymous

With this he bound her wrists together behind her back, and passed the end round a stout trunk of willow.
— from The Woman from Outside [On Swan River] by Hulbert Footner

[141] to the quarters of the colonel in command, heard prayers, sang a psalm and so went to its work; but though there was a preacher to every regiment and a sermon in the colonel's tent, there was no compulsion to attend, and there were few listeners except a handful of well-disposed persons.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

283 Columbus seems to have set forth not so much to discover new countries as to find a shorter way to India from the west than that known to exist via the Red Sea, 67 and which Bartholomew Diaz, by passing the Cape of Good Hope, had almost proved to exist round Africa.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Then cross the bights again, and put the end round again, under, and up through the bight which is underneath.
— from The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service by Richard Henry Dana

It was only by great persuasion that he agreed to go for a week to Edinburg, to revisit his old haunts there, to look on the ugly fields where he had sown his wild oats, and prove to even respectable and incredulous Uncle Alick that there was no fear of their ever sprouting up again.
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Taken altogether, it was a personality to excite repulsion and fear in any one brought in contact with it, and Douglas felt another strong shiver run down his back as he looked at her.
— from Under the Chilian Flag: A Tale of War between Chili and Peru by Harry Collingwood

In the spirit of forbearance, of sympathy, of wise compromise, which governed the proceedings of this famous Conference, was to be found the measure of the longing of all parties to extinguish racialism and make South Africa truly a nation.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

The voortrekkers, it has been said, fled the approach of a mild and enlightened modern policy, invaded a land which was not theirs, slaughtered a people who had every right to resist them, and created for themselves space to practise their tyranny over the native, and perpetuate their exploded religious and political creed in a retrograde society.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan

Since the publication of the first English edition many corrections and improvements have been made, with a view to rendering it as acceptable as possible to English readers; and, notwithstanding the disadvantages of a translation, the publishers feel sure that Schiller will be heartily acceptable to English readers, and that the influence of his writings will continue to increase.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller