From the top of Atagoyama alone was it possible to get a view of the interior of such enclosures, and it must be admitted that the knowledge thus gained completely upset the idea that the nobles lived in palaces.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Her eye was eagerly taking in everything within her reach; and after being at some pains to get a view of the house, and observing that “it was a sort of building which she could not look at but with respect,” she added, “Now, where is the avenue?
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Most remarkable pony, extremely docile, eh, Mr Richard, eh sir?’ Dick would return some matter-of-course reply, and Mr Brass standing on the bottom rail of his stool, so as to get a view of the street over the top of the window-blind, would take an observation of the visitors.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

[A; ac2] be given a variety of things to choose from.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

From the uplands he could get a view of the shaded cut part of the meadow below, with its grayish ridges of cut grass, and the black heaps of coats, taken off by the mowers at the place from which they had started cutting.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

With every gale and vary of their masters," &c.] Note 22 ( return ) [ custom them: "i.e. enter the goods they contain at the Custom-house."
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

Its chief duty is to open the way for gaining a victory, or to render it complete by carrying off prisoners and trophies, pursuing the enemy, rapidly succoring a threatened point, overthrowing disordered infantry, covering retreats of infantry and artillery.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain Which are too intrince t’unloose; smooth every passion That in the natures of their lords rebel; Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

An endless horizon broadened out on all sides, giving a view of Triel, Pisse-Fontaine, Chanteloup, all the heights of Hautrie, and the Seine as far as the eye could see.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Although not so much as with painting, varieties of texture enter into drawings done with any of the mediums that lend themselves to mass drawing; charcoal, conté crayon, lithographic chalk, and even red chalk and lead pencil are capable of giving a variety of textures, governed largely by the surface of the paper used.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

"Every day new arrivals of strangers poured into Paris, all anxious to gain a view of the Louvre, before its collection was broken up; it was the first point to which all the British directed their steps every morning, in eager curiosity to know whether the business of removal had commenced.
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

Gabriel Drummond, bring your rifle along—we shall give a volley over the grave."
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy

The autumn time has come now to Browning, and he has had ample time to think it o'er; for the "perfect wife," the "Leonor," has lain under the grasses and violets of the English burying-ground in Florence for twenty-five years.
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

"That's right," said George, and vaulted over the railing into the room.
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

And then there was the gentlest and vaguest of tuggings, and Cochrane could feel the ship being maneuvered.
— from Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster

" Then the wearer of the pearl-grey silk heaved a deep sigh, and Diana softly moved the curtain aside a little to get a view of the person who had spoken.
— from Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece by Bracebridge Hemyng

They ran down to the water's edge to get a view of the open sky, when, looking up, they saw a large flock of these winged, semi-annual voyagers of the air, coming in view over the forest, in their usual widespread, harrow-shaped battalions, and with seemingly hurried flight, pitching down from the British highlands toward the lower regions to the south.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

Upstairs in her room, whose windows gave a view of the Sound that was indescribably charming, Beatrix had a brief, almost breathless talk with Mrs. Lester Keene, to whom the story of the secret marriage had come as a frightful shock.
— from Scandal: A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton

From within such a point of view we can understand utterances like that of Pindar giving a vista of the eternal: "Happy is he who has seen the Mysteries and then descends under the hollow earth.
— from Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity by Rudolf Steiner

Do not be afraid of that which the elements tell, and if the gases and vapours of this witch's kitchen are not so sweet as the aromatic forest perfumes, it is yet just as much the breath of mother Nature, who here inhales it in somewhat deeper draughts than without in wood and field."
— from Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. II. (of III) by Rudolf von Gottschall