So they took the little fir from its place, and carried it in joyous procession to the edge of the glade, and laid it on the sledge.
— from The First Christmas Tree: A Story of the Forest by Henry Van Dyke

Now cover it with a very thin piece of glass and lay it over the stage of the microscope, and it is ready to be looked at and studied.
— from Through a Microscope Something of the Science, Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. by Frederick Leroy Sargent

roared Josh; and Dick pulled, with the fish darting to right and left, sixty yards away from the boat’s stern; but the stress soon began to tell, and it came easier after a time, nearer and nearer, till it was drawn close up, and then Dick, who was boiling over with excitement as he gazed at the great prize he had hooked, became aware that the boat was motionless and that Will was leaning over him ready to deftly insert the new gaff-hook in the fish’s gills, and lift it over the side.
— from Menhardoc by George Manville Fenn

This quotation has been given at length in order to sustain the contention—put forth more than once in this book—that treasures associated with the Roman epoch lie around us in every part of our island, and that all sorts of novel surprises mutely await the advent and quest of the diligent investigator.
— from The Towns of Roman Britain by J. O. (James Oliver) Bevan

I have just now brought the good tidings to Adam, and he bade me come and tell you; and lest you should doubt of the truth, he said, 'Remind her of the sign which was given to us in the cave: how the angels brought the gold and laid it on the south side, and the incense on the east, and the myrrh on the west.'
— from Old Testament Legends Being stories out of some of the less-known apocryphal books of the Old Testament by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

But, at any rate, it was of the greatest importance that Darwin gave a living impression of the struggle for life which is everywhere going on, and to which even the highest forms of existence must be amenable.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

the [Pg 14] King of the Jews ," in three different languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, in order that strangers might know for what he suffered.
— from Bible Stories by Anonymous

That was all there was to see, except the herds of cattle and horses and an occasional horseman galloping over the plain, and the sight at long distances of a grove or small plantation of trees, marking the site of an estancia, or sheep and cattle farm, these groves appearing like islands on the sea-like flat country.
— from Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

I should like at the same time to give a little information on the state of the anti-slavery question in other parts of the world.
— from A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge