The glacier was deeply fissured, but there was no swerving, no retreating, no turning back to seek more practicable routes; each stride told, and every stroke of the axe was a profitable investment of labour.
— from The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related by John Tyndall

It was true that she had been looking forward to her first chance at personal revenge ever since the attack on her—but now that she had it, the opportunity didn't seem anywhere near as attractive.
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

The Selective Service Acts of 1940 and 1948, for example, provided an important reason for integrating when, as interpreted by the executive branch, their racial provisions required each service to accept a quota of Negroes among its draftees.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

Burn, in his History of Parish Registers , expressly states this as a fact, and gives, as an example, “the single woman’s churchyard,” in Southwark, where the dead bodies of the inmates of the licensed stews were buried [910] .
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson