Jean Valjean mounted this inclined plane and reached the other side of the quagmire.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

( Rev. H. J. Van ) Missionary Travels in Asia Minor.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters

It would then be too late to attempt the journey viâ Mongolia, that is, without risking imprisonment of a couple of months in some lonely Siberian village——hardly a pleasant prospect, judging from all we had heard of that melancholy country.
— from From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt

His friends importuned king James very much, that if be might not return to Scotland, at least he might have liberty to preach in London, which he would not grant, 151 till he heard all the hopes of life were past, and then he allowed him liberty to preach, not fearing his activity.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie