When he returned we found he had gone over a fence into a field, so we had to dismount and plough through the snow after the sleigh; then we reseated ourselves, but oh, the poor horses!...
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Tireless of pinion and never Resting on bush or the branches, Close to the earth, up the azure, Over the treetops; After thy wing in its madness Follows my glance, as a flitting Child on the track of its mother Hastens in silence.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

For [ 466 ] this reason one band of the Cheyenne never eat beaver or even touch the skin.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

2 [A2] for criminality to recur or be on the rise.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The language of Vaine-Glory, of Indignation, Pitty and Revengefulness, Optative: but of the Desire to know, there is a peculiar expression called Interrogative; as, What Is It, When Shall It, How Is It Done, and
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

To this the man among the branches replies on behalf of the tree that it will bear abundantly.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Passengers can remain on board of the steamer, at all ports, if they desire, without additional expense, and all boating at the expense of the ship.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

V. move slowly &c. adv.; creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle &c. (be inactive) 683; grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble[obs3], slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate|, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire &c. (be late) 133. retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

A few seconds after, the white foam of the sea was dotted with black heads as the men rose one by one to the surface, and struck out for floating oars and pieces of the wrecked boat.
— from The World of Ice by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The flank battalions being reimbarked on board of their respective ships, and Sir Charles Grey with his suite being as usual with the Admiral on board the Boyne, the whole fleet weighed and made sail from this island by eight in the morning of the 5th of April, and by nine at night they anchored in Fort Royal harbour, Martinique.
— from An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794 Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Cooper Willyams

Slowly, painfully, in spite of crippling injuries, they dragged, an inch at a time, toward one another over the rocky, oozy bed of the river which the huge slide had instantaneously stopped.
— from The Night the Mountain Fell: The Story of the Montana-Yellowstone Earthquake by Edmund Christopherson

At any rate, he sat on the chain-box as contented as though everything was going on regularly on board of the boat.
— from Breaking Away; or, The Fortunes of a Student by Oliver Optic

1, The body of the lower jaw. 2, Ramus, or branch of the jaw, to which the muscles that move it are attached.
— from A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter

For let BDEF be the body of the moone, ABC will be a ray or beame of the Sunne, which enlightens a mountaine at A and 135 K4 B is the point of contingency,
— from The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins

So I thought that perhaps, if I took matters easy, I could rub out both of the rascals.
— from Frank in the Woods by Harry Castlemon

The entire length of rope unwound directly from the reel or 'bollard' of the first launch, and the line of a second boat was attached forthwith; a third and a fourth were annexed, but the whale exhibited no sign of exhaustion, and dragged his pursuers like the wind.
— from Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend