13 Such fasting-places are usually, as in Java, either solitary hills or places which present some great natural peculiarity; even remarkable trees and rocks being, as has already been pointed out, pressed into the service of this Malay “natural religion.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The camp was captured and burned, but, in the zeal to secure the fruits of victory, they remained so long collecting the plunder, that General J. E. Slaughter heard of the expedition, moved against it, and drove it back with considerable loss, sustaining very little injury to his command.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

I know that Jasper Ewold saw her occasionally, and in his impulse I know that he said things about me that were untrue.
— from Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer

But often in the time to come would she look back to that strange ride, the weight of the appalling danger she had just escaped still hanging over her, the courage and promptitude of her rescuer, the struggle she was waging with her own natural terror, dreading she knew not what.
— from Golden Face: A Tale of the Wild West by Bertram Mitford