Though various other reasons were given for this systematic evasion of the only lawful means of conveying letters—the infrequency of the couriers' services, and the public distrust in the security of the mails—there was practical unanimity in the declaration that the chief obstacle in the way of the public's using the post office was the excessive rates of postage.
— from The History of the Post Office in British North America by William Smith

It was laborious climbing, but after some half-dozen pauses, I reached the summit—glorious scenery all around, and a magnificent backward and downward view into the valley of Cashmere, passing over which the eye rested on the Pir Panjal range, which formed a fitting background to so splendid a picture.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

Sometimes, too, when an enormous mass of soil through age rolls down from the land into great and extensive pools of water, the earth rocks and sways with the undulation of the water just as a vessel at times cannot rest, until the liquid within has ceased to sway about in unsteady undulations....
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

At this time five ships came from Goa to carry off the cinnamon to Portugal, on which the enemy raised the siege, believing these ships had come to relieve and reinforce the garrison.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

The principles on which this enquiry relies are those which constitute the relation of cause and effect, as it exists with reference to our minds; and their rules and mode of application have been attempted to be sketched out, (though in far less detail than the intrinsic interest of the subject, both in a logical and practical point of view, would demand,) in the foregoing pages.
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

Soon they were descending a steep woody path, on which the exposed roots of the trees formed steps through a small, round glade, which was choked up with coal and chips of wood caked with tar.
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

The principle on which the earth receives this impetus, can be easily illustrated by a familiar experiment.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

Making a trifling purchase, they went out unnoticed, and found themselves within a stone’s throw of the public office which the English ruler had appointed for the interview.
— from Veiled Women by Marmaduke William Pickthall

And then, after that infinite period of waiting, the Emperor, realising like the resigned fatalist he was, that it was not there he should find his destiny, quietly rode back again, as though he had merely gone forward to reconnoitre the exact positions of the German batteries.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

They did so and the first person on whom their eyes rested was Lord Hastings.
— from The Boy Allies Under the Sea; Or, The Vanishing Submarines by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes