This is the first and almost the only point where this curious tree can be seen, while following any regular road or navigation.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

It is very interesting to note that all depends on the question whether one has the good fortune of finding a rich race or not, as this pedigree-culture shows.
— from Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

They had already crossed the stile, and were on the path in the field, a route rarely or never taken by any but those who desired to come to the house.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

Here the top of a small hill has been encircled with a ditch; but the ditch is so narrow that it does not suggest a defensive work, and it is remote from any Roman road or navigable river.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage

However, the Zu-Zu was the rage, and spent Bertie's money, when he got any, just as her willful sovereignty fancied, and Rake rode on now with his master's note, bearing no very good will to her; for Rake had very strong prejudices, and none stronger than against these fair pillagers who went about seeking whom they should devour, and laughing at the wholesale ruin they wrought while the sentimentalists babbled in “Social Science” of “pearls lost” and “innocence betrayed.”
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida