The mysteries of Eleusis would mean more for a modern man than for an ancient Greek, and in our modern groves of Dodona the voice of the god has meanings for us stranger than ever reached his ears.
— from Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne

This portion of Virginia, too, was a great military highway for United States troops, en route to the West; and once securely lodged in its almost impregnable fastnesses, their ejection would be practically impossible.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon