“And after those four years—what?” “Oh, there’s another bend in the road at their end,” answered Anne lightly.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Just beyond, and evidently unknown to the German-speaking pair, a path led across a [21] meadow that short cut another sharp bend in the road and this enabled Clem and Don to gain so much on the men that before the latter had reached the farm house beyond, the lads were close behind them, between a double line of willow trees and thus unseen.
— from The Brighton Boys at Chateau-Thierry by James R. Driscoll

He loved the evening bath in the river and the evening meal of fresh leaves.
— from Brooks's Readers, Third Year by Stratton D. (Stratton Duluth) Brooks

As the sun set we landed, and ordering our men to advance in the canoe to a certain bend in the river, and there encamp and await our return, we landed and went off into the woods as if to search for game.
— from The Gorilla Hunters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

In order to prevent the Indians finding Braddock’s grave and mutilating the body, the general was buried in the road and the entire army passed over it,—men, horses, and wagons.
— from The Mentor: The Contest for North America, Vol. 1, No. 35, Serial No. 35 The Story of America in Pictures by Albert Bushnell Hart

91 Taking an instance which comes to mind: a troop of cavalry on outpost duty at Colesberg found themselves cut off at dawn by some 500 Boers; instantly they rode at the enemy, and, with small loss and doing some execution with their lances, came out.
— from Our Cavalry by Michael Frederic Rimington

When the entire distance from the Orkneys to Norway had been mined, however, it became impossible to "run around the end."
— from The Victory At Sea by Burton Jesse Hendrick

" The apostle had a particular reference in the text to the decisions at the great day, when "everyone must give account to God, and receive the deeds done in the body"—and insists that the situation in which each person had been placed, and the rule given for his direction will then be brought into the reckoning, and that each one will be judged, and his state determined by the law, under which he had lived and acted during his probation.
— from Sermons on Various Important Subjects Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume by Andrew Lee

At this number the Inspector raised his head, and said coldly,— "It must be in the room at the end of the passage."
— from Les Misérables, v. 3/5: Marius by Victor Hugo

The methods of shortening its wanderings and bringing it to repose are the exercises of a pious life, penance, and prayer, and more especially a profound contemplation of the existence and attributes of the Supreme Being.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper