An excellent junction of the two, easily reached and examined, occurs on the shores of Gairloch, at the end of the rocky peninsula on which the Free church stands.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

would the joys of that time ever return to us again?
— from Under the Red Dragon: A Novel by James Grant

If one may judge of the two episodes related of Etana, he is not a personage regarded with favor by the compilers.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

He would also disclose to our view the hideousness and awfulness of sin, and the uneasiness, discontentments, trouble and fear attending the wicked as they journey onward to the eternal region of woe.
— from The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

At last they reached the famous olive yards on the road to Tunis, where the veterans of Charles V had done such brave deeds, and there D. John ordered them to encamp round the wells, so that the soldiers were able to slake the burning thirst which devoured them.
— from The Story of Don John of Austria by Luis Coloma

But though it may often be very justly objected to the existing race of political economists “that they attempt to construct a permanent fabric out of transitory materials; that they take for granted the immutability of arrangements of society, many of which are in their nature fluctuating or progressive, and enunciate with as little qualification as if they were universal and absolute truths, propositions which are perhaps [pg 626] applicable to no state of society except the particular one in which the writer happened to live;” this does not take away the value of the propositions, considered with reference to the state of society from which they were drawn.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill