Their slender length for rafters spread, And withered heath and rushes dry Supplied a russet canopy.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Physiological researches have led sincere investigators to the inevitable conclusion that there is subtle, refined, dynamic substance, a reality that binds up the reorganization, causes growth, vitality and motion; repairs injuries; makes up losses; overcomes and cures diseases.
— from The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga Including the Practices and Exercises of Concentration, both Objective and Subjective, and Active and Passive Mentation, an Elucidation of Maya, Guru Worship, and the Worship of the Terrible, also the Mystery of Will-Force by Mukerji, A. P., swámi

Duke could remember dimly something about Rome's granting citizenship to her conquered neighbors.
— from Victory by Lester Del Rey

At a word the grass flared, and the raft, released, struck upon a rock, turned slowly, and raced down stream, a red and yellow sheet of fire under a whirling canopy of smoke, straight for the lantern which marked the presence of the man-of-war.
— from The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

"But in the yule, O Yanna, Up from the round dim sea And reeling dungeons of the fog, I am come back to thee!"
— from Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea by Bliss Carman

From Uffington Castle the road descended slowly, and reached six hundred feet at the Wiltshire border, a third of a mile past the road from Idstone to Ashdown.
— from The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas

Mr. Ranquist darted suddenly at Roger, exclaiming: "You have been trying to discover the secret of the hole we drilled!
— from The White Crystals: Being an Account of the Adventures of Two Boys by Howard Roger Garis

"I will remember," Debrasques said, also rising now from his chair.
— from Clash of Arms: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton