Drafts from the pond are then occasionally made; the largest are first taken off, and conveyed in large shallow tubs of water to market: if sold, well; if not, they are brought back and replaced in the stew, until they can be disposed of.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

Birney also resided in the South until he was forced to leave for the same reason.
— from The Anti-Slavery Crusade: A Chronicle of the Gathering Storm by Jesse Macy

At the back of the south garden, they were again challenged by two archers with bent bows, and, replying in the same unguarded manner, passed on.
— from Bothwell; or, The Days of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

Telford, the great engineer, had only recently reconstructed the magnificent road which runs from Shrewsbury to Holyhead, which was to be the means of beating all records in the speeding up of the Irish mail, but the railway gave it the appearance of a white elephant.
— from The Post Office and Its Story An interesting account of the activities of a great government department by Edward Bennett

Now the first dusky châlets of the hamlet of Bel-Oiseau straggled towards me, and it was music in my ears to hear the cattle blow and rattle in their stalls under the sleeping lofts as I passed outside in the moonlight.
— from At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes