And who are these on whom, and on all that appertains to them, the dust of earth seems never to have settled?
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

18.—As the preposition to before the infinitive shows the latter to be " that towards which the preceding verb is directed," verbs of desisting, omitting, preventing , and avoiding , are generally found to take the participle after them, and not the infinitive; because, in such instances, the direction of effort seems not to be so properly to , or towards , as from the action.[419] Where the preposition from is inserted, (as it most commonly is, after some of these verbs.)
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

His son becomes deputed chief during his absence; his authority is cited as that by which his son acts; his vengeance is invoked on all who disobey his son; and his commands, as previously known or as asserted by his son, become the germ of a moral code: a fact we shall the more clearly perceive if we remember, that early moral codes inculcate mainly the virtues of the warrior, and the duty of exterminating some neighbouring tribe whose existence is an offence to the deity.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

Madame Linders had not been dead ten days, when the brother and sister had a violent quarrel, and parted with the determination on either side never to meet again—a resolution which was perfectly well kept.
— from My Little Lady by E. Frances (Eleanor Frances) Poynter

4. And be it further enacted, That the commanding general of each district shall appoint as many boards of registration as may be necessary, consisting of three loyal officers or persons, to make and complete the registration, superintend the election, and make return to him of the votes, list of voters, and of the persons elected as delegates by a plurality of the votes cast at said election; and upon receiving said returns he shall open the same, ascertain the persons elected as delegates, according to the returns of the officers who conducted said election, and make proclamation thereof; and if a majority of the votes given on that question shall be for a convention, the commanding general, within sixty days from the date of election, shall notify the delegates to assemble in convention, at a time and place to be mentioned in the notification, and said convention, when organized, shall proceed to frame a constitution and civil government according to the provisions of this act, and the act to which it is supplementary; and when the same shall have been so framed, said constitution shall be submitted by the convention for ratification to the persons registered under the provisions of this act at an election to be conducted by the officers or persons appointed or to be appointed by the commanding general, as hereinbefore provided, and to be held after the expiration of thirty days from the date of notice thereof, to be given by said convention; and the returns thereof shall be made to the commanding general of the district.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

The internal surface with a deep median longitudinal groove, and others less distinct on each side near the base.
— from The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae in the Collection of the United States Museum... by Frederick W. (Frederick William) True

We lay our course; we had been doing over eight since nine the night before; and I drew a heavy breath of satisfaction.
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson