You voluntarily call up all your ideas of causation, that are related to the effect you desire, and voluntarily examine and compare them, and at length determine whether to ascend the tree, or to gather stones from the neighbouring brook, is easier to practise, or more promising of success; and, finally, you gather the stones, and repeatedly fling them to dislodge the fruit.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

As there was no extra charge for this, it certainly surpassed any preconception on my part of steamship amenity.
— from Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. by Horace Greeley

101 When well away from the man, Elizabeth saw that his observation regarding the prospects of meeting people on such a day was a perfectly natural one and not aimed at her at all.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger

[Pg 74] f the hauberk in the shape of a square or oblong pectoral; when worn thus it was possibly of metal plates or studs attached to leather ( Fig. 89 ).
— from British and Foreign Arms & Armour by Charles Henry Ashdown