It might have been taken for a ghostly or phantasmagoric reflection of the old shop-keeper Pyncheon's shabbily provided shelves, save that some of the articles were of a description and outward form which could hardly have been known in his day.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

At the day appointed there issued forth of the Tower, about the third hour of the day, sixty coursers, apparelled for the jousts, and upon every one an esquire of honour, riding a soft pace; then came forth sixty ladies of honour, mounted upon palfreys, riding on the one side, richly apparelled, and every lady led a knight with a chain of gold, those knights being on the king’s party, had their harness and apparel garnished with white harts, and crowns of gold about the harts’ necks, and so they came riding through the streets of London to Smithfield, with a great number of trumpets, and other instruments of music before them.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

“And, in fact, when the virgin and the herdsman fall beneath the western horizon, Perseus rises on the other side; and this genius, with a sword in his hand, seems to drive them from the [ 442 ] summer heaven, the garden and dominion of fruits and flowers.
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

"The distance to which icebergs float from the polar regions on the opposite sides of the line is, as may be supposed, very different.
— from The Arctic Whaleman; or, Winter in the Arctic Ocean by Lewis Holmes

This, I thought, would be at least a partial return of the original steal.
— from Flower of the North: A Modern Romance by James Oliver Curwood

“It must be pretty rough on the other side.”
— from Harry's Island by Ralph Henry Barbour

As all that we could hope to do, however, was so long to delay the enemy in the meadows by the river as to enable the admiral and the Prince de Condé to gain a good position on the heights, La Noue gave the order to wheel, and keep upon the same line with the infantry; but, on looking round, we saw that Puyviault, attacked on the left hand, had been forced to retreat, and that Martigue, with his fire-eating cavalry, had passed round on the other side of the tank, and was already on our flank.
— from The Man-at-Arms; or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Also, to hoist in or get out the lower masts of a ship; they are either placed on the side of a quay or wharf, on board of an old ship cut down ( see Sheer-hulk ), or erected in the vessel wherein the mast is to be planted or displaced, the lower ends of the props resting on the opposite sides of the deck, and the upper parts being fastened together across, from which a tackle depends; this sort of sheers is secured by stages extending to the stem and stern of the vessel.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

287 Probably the whole south as far as the great desert passed as imperial land, 288 and even the effective dependence extended far beyond the domain of Roman civilisation, which, it is true, does not exclude frequent levying of contributions and pillaging raids on the one side or the other.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

Since Galileo, the scientific attitude has proved itself increasingly capable of ascertaining important facts and laws, which are acknowledged by all competent people regardless of temperament or self-interest or political pressure.
— from The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell

[38] beat a precipitate retreat out the other side, and after a moment in the chartroom we found what we wanted.
— from The Image and the Likeness by John Scott Campbell