Round each, six inches from the wall, he has put on a framework of wood canvas, which will be painted white.
— from Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Barrow

Here, in other words, was a proposal that might provide the needed relief, even some income for the company's hard pressed treasury.
— from The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624 by Wesley Frank Craven

The constant striking of the hammers against the strings stretches and loosens them and alters their pitch; for this reason each string is fastened to a screw which can be turned so as to tighten the string or to loosen it if necessary.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark

Here the right eye succeeds in fixating the object, but observation of the left eye will reveal to an observer the fact that it squints just as violently inwards as in the former case.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

Hence his multifarious importations into religion, each successively introduced for this purely subjective and temporal reason, removed it farther and farther from the ground of truth.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone