The male convicts not disposed of as servants, or by tickets of leave, are formed into gangs, which are stationed in different parts of the country in Government employ, such as making and repairing roads, and various other public works, and are maintained from the stores.
— from Two Voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by Thomas Reid

Count Guido Franceschini the Aretine Was head of an old noble house enough, Not over-rich, you can't have everything, But such a man as riches rub against, Readily stick to,—one with a right to them Born in the blood: 'twas in his very brow Always to knit itself against the world, Beforehand so, when that world stinted due Service and suit: the world ducks and defers.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Sirens and mermaids are rather retiring, and when Vedder depicted the Sea-Serpent he conferred a boon on Illustrators.
— from In the Track of the Bookworm by Irving Browne

They spied me afar off, and the shower of their arrows shut out the sun and made a rattling roof above me.
— from Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton