Having secretly prepared every thing for his departure, he put his whole case upon record in a letter addressed to her majesty, and left behind at his house in London.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Hence, Brito, at the commencement of his relation of the siege by Philip Augustus, says, "Vicus erat scabrâ circumdatus undique rupe, Ipsius asperitate loci Falæsa vocatus, Normannæ in medio regionis, cujus in altâ Turres rupe sedent et mœnia; sic ut ad illam Jactus nemo putet aliquos contingere posse.
— from Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner

Each machine-gun crew, upon reaching its appointed locality, spread upon the ground a large V-shaped canvas (V representing the word "Vickers") as an intimation to the air of their whereabouts, and that they needed ammunition.
— from The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Monash, John, Sir

This region, not placed so completely under Roman influence as Lyons and the headquarter–towns on the Rhine, and more wealthy and civilised than the districts on the Loire and the Seine, seems to have in some measure produced of itself this exercise of art.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen