But there is more than this; this relationship even goes as far as a complete identification.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Now, what say you, Alan? Could not a cadet of [pg 144] Royal Ecossais get a furlough, slip over the marches, and call in upon a Leyden student!"
— from David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

Pedro, with his hand on the starboard wheel rope, eased gently away from the sailing sloop.
— from The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket; or, The Mystery of the Dunstan Heir by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

These always SEEM to branch and sub-branch like a tree from a common trunk; the flourishing twigs destroying the less vigorous—the dead and lost branches rudely representing extinct genera and families.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Blaisdell and Rivers exchanged glances, and for a moment were speechless.
— from The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

This obstacle being removed, eighteen guns and four mortars were brought to bear against the fort, until eight o'clock in the morning, when the firing ceased, and Ginckle demanded a surrender, the summons being accompanied by a threat, that if it were not vacated within two hours, the garrison would share the fate of the sergeant, which they had just witnessed.
— from The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it by Boyle, John, active 1867

Mr. Marchmill was in a thriving way of business, and he and his family lived in a large new house, which stood in rather extensive grounds a few miles outside the city wherein he carried on his trade.
— from Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

[Pg 34] meditate in silence when the temple bells ring, eat grain and fruit and drink milk, and pay enormous bills to the quack who runs the place.
— from The Adventures of a Modest Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers