The Government of Switzerland lately endeavored to procure passage through Piedmont for some Austrian deserters from the army in Lombardy, who wished to sail from Genoa for Montevideo; but the Piedmontese Government refused to allow it.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

The sediment brought down by the arctic current soon filled all the interstices, and to-day the dam is perfect, preventing any entrance of the waters of Davis Strait into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, except through a narrow channel for the passage of vessels.
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller

Two or three times while he was thus engaged, Ned came up, tried the door, and called to him; but Guy only stopped long enough to flourish his fist in the air with a significant gesture, as if he would have been glad of a chance to use it on Ned’s head, and then went on with his reading, until the creaking of the gate, and the sound of wheels on the carriage-way, told him that his father had arrived.
— from Guy Harris, the Runaway by Harry Castlemon

This appears to have been the route of Jogues at this time, as indicated by the distance given of six leagues equal to fifteen miles.
— from The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, the Lily of the Mohawks by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth

And with earth's greatest ones shall labor ever The hand that gave to Lombardy her grace.
— from Hospital Sketches by Robert Swain Peabody