Supper was just over, and the men were gathering around the camp-fires, for the evening was frosty, when a lone horseman was discerned in the twilight slowly making his way over the plains towards the camp, and soon Pearson rode in, or rather staggered in, for his horse was utterly exhausted, and tottered as it walked.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

To those magnificent ornaments of the floral world we must add some less known plants, remarkable in other respects; such as the Mollugo cerviana , which, with a few Ficoideæ, form the almost exclusive nourishment of the herbivorous animals belonging to these countries.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

On the contrary, the land has been permanently raised in one region several feet or yards, and the rise has been found gradually to die out, so as to be imperceptible at a distance of twenty miles, and in some areas is even exchanged for a simultaneous downward movement of several feet.
— from The Student's Elements of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir