A Roman statue of bronze, let us suppose, is discovered in the Thames valley.
— from The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

A village or town which has a post office, telegraph office, a doctor, a store or two, a railroad station or boat landing, is often the camp Director's best friend, and such a place [14] should be within hiking distance of every camp.
— from Campward Ho! A Manual for Girl Scout Camps by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

This singular animal runs sideways or backwards like a crab; and, being furnished with an unusual number of claws, it adheres so firmly that it is not easy to take it off; and even if you succeed in this, its substance is so hard, that by the utmost pressure of your finger and thumb it is difficult to kill it; and if you let it go with life, it will immediately return to the charge.—Amongst the insect plagues of horses, I should also have enumerated the larva of Lixus paraplecticus , which Linné considers as the cause of the equine disease, called in Sweden, after the Phellandrium aquaticum , " Stâkra ," had not the observations of the accurate De Geer rendered it doubtful whether the insect be at all connected with this malady [239] .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

The following day they headed the bay, camping at a beautiful plateau on the edge of the redwood belt, giving a fine view of a noble landlocked harbor and a rich stretch of bottom land reaching to Mad River.
— from A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock

The ghost of his guilt haunts Logan, he cannot drown it in a red sea of burgundy: life has lost its flavour; if he returns, it will be with the true Scottish desire to die in his own country, though of his ancient family’s lands he has not kept an acre.
— from James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang