Rations, as usual, were delivered to them from the stores; and if they were destitute of money wherewith to pay for the comfort of lodging, either this supply of food must be curtailed, or infamous means resorted to in order to make up the deficiency.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

Two or three Bourses per Department, wrote Pelloutier, would group the workingmen more rapidly and at the cost of less efforts than seven or eight insufficiently equipped and necessarily weak.
— from Syndicalism in France by Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) Lorwin

Land snails of the genera Helix, Cyclostoma, Pupa, and Clausilia, retire into the caves, the floors of which are strewed with myriads of their dead and unoccupied shells, at the same time that water infiltered through the mountain throws down carbonate of lime, enveloping the shells, together with fragments of the white limestone which occasionally falls from the roof.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The hills have a slight covering of green upon them, but consist of little else than sand; and from what could be seen of the back country, the soil there is scarcely better.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

The troops were allowed to lie down, and, with the calmness that comes of long experience, they soon fell asleep.
— from The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

The Earl of Monthermer and his nephew were then at her father's castle of Lindwell, enjoying the sports of the brown autumn, and cementing the newly-revived friendship between the two houses in the intimate communication of domestic life.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

“You shall be in your father's castle of Leicester ere the sun marks noon.
— from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Ice hares, which are found as far north as the Parry Islands, are also subject to the same change, with the exception that the warm weather continues only long enough to spread a gray mantle along the back of the little creature, which quickly disappears as the temperature declines.
— from Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Thither also, at all seasons, repaired the stately heron, to devour the finny race; and thither came, on like errand, the splendidly-plumed kingfisher.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

There is nothing remarkable in this chain of lakes except their shapes, being rocky basins filled by the waters of the Missinippi, insulating the massy eminences and meandering with almost imperceptible current between them.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin