The animals, whether birds, beasts, or fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., distinguishing those animals, if any, which appear to have been domesticated by the natives.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales by John Oxley

Deeming it proper to inform all their brethren, to whom intelligence could be conveyed, of what was coming, that they might be on their guard, they dispatched swift runners and fast rowers in every direction, to the east, west, and north, to carry the news to the scattered chiefs, and tribes, that they might gather their warriors together, and prepare to combat, if need were, the strange creature.
— from Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by James Athearn Jones

Although these finer fissures generally had a parallelism with the two main fissures bounding this segment of rock, yet, in many places, these finer seams or fissures run in every direction through the rock, forming a network, or reticulated mass.
— from Old Mines of Southern California Desert-Mountain-Coastal Areas Including the Calico-Salton Sea Colorado River Districts and Southern Counties by Harold W. (Harold Wellman) Fairbanks

The soft mud under his feet rendered it extremely difficult to stand, and the rope which attached him to the spar, which was driving before him, added to the difficulty.
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

There is no evidence that the early marriages, that is, marriages of children and very young lads and girls, which were far from rare in England during the first years of our colonial life, ever were permitted in the new world.
— from Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

Perronet came from a distinguished line of French Protestants who had found refuge in England during times of religious persecution in their homeland.
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

“Bricklayers are spreading the webs and meshes of houses with such fearful rapidity in every direction that people are being gradually confined within narrow prisons only open at the top for the admission of what would be air if it were not smoke.
— from The Sanitary Evolution of London by Henry (Henry Lorenzo) Jephson