It was like the genial, reviving influence of the salt sea waves.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

On another occasion an anemone that had almost entirely surrounded a mussel on which it had been feeding, gradually released itself of the shell by a longitudinal division of its body; but here, again, it is probable that the fission was the result of pressure applied rather than of any power on the part of the animal.
— from The Sea Shore by William S. Furneaux

"I have learned from my son that Gilbert Rushmere, in order to secure a young lady of fortune whom he met in London, while on the recruiting service, married her before he went back with the regiment to Spain.
— from The World Before Them: A Novel. Volume 2 (of 3) by Susanna Moodie

On the 11th of July, the Government received intelligence of the spread of the Mutiny throughout Bengal, and the resulting diminution of the Indian Army.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

But the interpretation of the minds of Yorkshire peasants and artisans for the benefit of the so-called general reader is only the secondary object which I have in view.
— from Songs of the Ridings by F. W. (Frederic William) Moorman

Then he walked out of the room with heavy steps, and ordered the trap to be got ready, in order to set off on his usual pilgrimage.
— from Dame Care by Hermann Sudermann

Here, in the days of old, our worthy but illiterate forefathers had grubbed and dug and turned up every square foot of the soil, like a colony of gigantic rabbits, in order to supply the precious metal of the country to the Phoenicians, Jews, and Greeks.
— from Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

All the while his eyes kindled with growing admiration for these brave lads, who were ready to take such great risks in order to save Uncle [Pg 132] Mark's cattle, if it so happened that they had not been already seized by one side or the other of the contending forces.
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap

Thus, to find out which flower in a garden gives a certain scent, it is usually enough to rely on observation, going up to the likely flowers one after the other and smelling them: at close quarters, the greater relative intensity of the scent
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read