wait a bit and I’ll show you how many ghosts I have captured this very night and put into my bag; and right glad am I to find you here, as I shall have one more ghost in my bag.”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

Lower down the valley, appeared a broad flat, called Jubla, a halting-place one stage below the village of Kambachen, on the road to Lelyp on the Tambur: it must be a remarkable geological as well as natural feature, for it [ 264 ] appeared to jut abruptly and quite horizontally from the black cliffs of the valley.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

Once, at the turn of a wall, they stopped the motor before a ruined gateway and, stumbling along a road full of ruts, stood before a little old deserted house, fantastically carved and chimneyed, which lay in a moat under the shade of ancient trees.
— from The Reef by Edith Wharton

The metal bolts and rivets glared at one with their ice-covered ends, while the wooden tree-nails, timbers, and doors cracked continually under the twin action of frost [108] and contraction.
— from True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by A. W. (Adolphus Washington) Greely

Military Military branches: Army, Republican Guard and Special Republican Guard, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Force, Border Guard Force, Internal Security Forces Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 5,039,332 (1997 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

When they enter the refectory, their demeanor is marked by a reverent gravity, and they take their seats in regular order, all maintaining a perfect silence.
— from Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han by Faxian

And besides all this, there must be a riding Gown, and some other new accoutrements made for the journy, or else it would have no grace.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

There was the impact of a muffled blow, and Ridgeway gave a great start, seeming to grow suddenly straight and tall.
— from Frank Merriwell's Pursuit; Or, How to Win by Burt L. Standish

"Nae gate?—Naebody?—I wish it may be a right gate, and a right body, that keeps folk out sae late at e'en, Effie.
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Walter Scott