Here they left a short notice of their defeat in an English cairn, and, taking Beaumont’s sextant, the English flag, etc., on the sledge, continued on their way to the mouth of Gap Valley, where they went into camp, and remained long enough to take a set of tidal observations.
— from Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Charles Lanman

By the same process it is rendered more impregnable within its stronghold of the human heart and reason, less exposed to the attacks of logic or the changes of opinion.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

The music of versification has endless varieties of measures, and rhyme lends enchantment to them all.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

If a right line equall to the axis of the sphearicall, and to it from the end of the perpendicular be knit unto the center, a right line drawne from the cutting of the Page 288 [288] periphery unto the said end shall be the side of the Icosahedrum .
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus