It does not appear that there is, at present, any cavern in Mount Soracte which emits mephitic vapours.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

These periodic floodings or gushes of forms of life, as the brachiopods in the Silurian, the trilobites in the upper Potsdam, and crustacea in modern seas, the bivalves in the Devonian, the crinoids in the Lower Carboniferous, the echinoids in the Cretaceous, the cephalopods and reptiles in the Jurassic, the gastropods and mammals in the Tertiaries, are the wide escape of a propulsive intention as it overcomes resistance, which it has undermined or repelled by processes of development, slowly and unintermittently inaugurated long before.
— from A Woman of the Ice Age by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

That big, bellowing Irishman, dragging a half-dozen men to get at me, blood streaming down his face, and his expression far from agreeable, put a crimp in my soul, and don't you forget it.
— from Plain Mary Smith: A Romance of Red Saunders by Henry Wallace Phillips

Penguins are carved in massive Slick Rock Member seen resting upon thin-bedded Dewey Bridge Member.
— from The Geologic Story of Arches National Park Geological Survey Bulletin 1393 by Stanley William Lohman

750 O what a confluence of ethereal fires, Form urns unnumber’d, down the steep of heaven, Streams to a point, and centres in my sight!
— from Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Edward Young

And between these two trees was worked in cross-stitch: "Mary Upham is my name, America is my nation; Salem is my dwelling place, And Christ is my salvation."
— from A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda M. Douglas