A river face wall, where native craft are to lie, is being constructed of hewn stone blocks and sections of circular pillars, remains of the ancient city.
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

They whisper of the terrific hazards and the precarious rewards of their adventurous calling.
— from Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

Near the Castle, and easy of access, are beautiful views into the romantic Friedrichsthal, with its green meadows, upon which the deer roam at liberty, towards Altwied, which lies embedded in the Wiedbach valley, with its picturesque ruins of the ancient castle, or to the distant shooting-lodge now called the Maienhof.
— from The Life of Carmen Sylva (Queen of Roumania) by Natalie Stackelberg

Two or three varieties are found in the polar regions of the American continent.
— from Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Despising the petty rivalries of tribes and chiefs, he became absorbed in the grand idea of uniting all the Indian clans in one great and desperate struggle for mastery with the whites.
— from The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley

And where the higher paganism had come to repudiate the popular religion of trappings and ceremonial no less than that of sacrifice and that of mere self-mortification, established Christianity placed the essence of religion anew in external usages on the one hand and asceticism on the other; cherishing the while every “superstition” of the past, and beginning a species of image-worship that the past had hardly known.
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

The membership fee of one dollar per annum entitles every honey producer to membership and participation in all of the benefits enumerated, as well as to the published report of the annual convention held by the association.
— from Bee Keeping by Frank Benton

The earlier studies of the monuments and prehistoric remains of the American continent seemed to point conclusively to a native source for its civilisation.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir