The varying grades of city streets had gradually risen around the garden until it lay depressed several feet below the level of the adjoining streets, a pleasant valley,—like Avalon,— "Deep-meadowed, happy, fair, with orchard lawns, And bowery hollows crown'd with summer seas."
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

A not altogether pleasant fame had gathered upon it, like drifted seaweed, from historically ancient days.
— from The Noank's Log: A Privateer of the Revolution by William O. Stoddard

A Mathematical Instrument, consisting of one or more Lines drawn on Wood, Metal, or other Matter, divided into unequal Parts; of great Use in laying down Distances in Proportion, or in measuring Distances already laid down.
— from A Naval Expositor Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms of Art Belonging to the Parts, Qualities and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea by Thomas Riley Blanckley

Being got up, I lay down upon the ground half dead, until such time as the sun appeared.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

He is not confined, like the great mass of men, to the outer court of nature’s magnificent temple, but he is admitted to the interior, and allowed to trace its long halls, aisles, and galleries, and gaze upon its lofty domes and arches; nay, as a priest he enters the penetralia , the holy of holies, where sacred fire is always burning upon the altars, where hovers the glorious Schekinah, and where, from a full orchestra, the anthem of praise is ever ascending.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock