[Pg 42] and another phase of the work has clearly begun; it crawls about over the almost invisible foundation lines with a most curious gait, using its long legs to sway its body from side to side, raising and depressing its abdomen at intervals, and as this motion continues a beautiful gauzy sheet of incredibly fine texture gradually grows into view.
— from Spiders by Cecil Warburton

They reached it in safety, and getting under its lee, lowered a boat and fixed their ice-anchors.
— from Fast in the Ice: Adventures in the Polar Regions by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

As the auditor gazed upon its labyrinthian lines, circles, crosses and other things intended to illuminate it, and "gathered up the loins of his mind" to listen to the explanation following, it was with an inward sigh of gratitude that God had never put such a yoke upon us, "which neither we nor our fathers were able to bear."
— from How to Master the English Bible An Experience, a Method, a Result, an Illustration by James M. (James Martin) Gray

Yet has the Dawn gone up: in loveliest light She walks high heaven beyond the shadow there: Whom I too veiled from all men's envious sight With inward eyes adore and silent prayer. {149} The Sangreal Once, when beside me in that sacred place I saw my lady lift her lovely head, And saw the Chalice gleam above her face
— from Poems: New and Old by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir

The deepening of the soil has further the effect of making the plants which grow upon it less liable to be burned up in seasons of drought, a somewhat unexpected result of making a soil drier, but which manifestly depends on its permitting the roots to penetrate to a greater depth, and so to get beyond the surface portion, which is rapidly dried up, and to which they were formerly confined.
— from Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson

Mr. Gowran Up in London LX.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope