Among the atrocious, cowardly acts of vindictive malice which marked the conduct of the enemy, none did or could surpass the brutality with which the dying and dead body of Morgan was treated.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

The command of the expedition now devolved on Captain Crozier; but who can picture his anxiety and that of his officers and men, as the summer of 1847 drew on—the sea open to the north and south, but the ships immovably fixed in the vast mass of ice driven down upon them from Melville Sound?
— from Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston

The chance of their escape now devolved on me solely, for neither would have desired to disturb that strange and melancholy luxury of contemplation.
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

Of the internal construction of these engines no description or plates have been given; nor do I remember to have read a passage in any author from which it can be concluded that they were furnished with an air-chamber, though in the patents they were always called spouting-engines , which threw up one continued jet of water.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

The charge of the expedition now devolved on Captain Gore, who took command of the Resolution, while Captain King was appointed to the Discovery.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

The romantic epic was not confined to the Court of the Estensi, nor dissertations on the gentle life to that of Urbino.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds