Behind or near the village temple one may see rude wigwams of straw, each sheltering a gohei , [45] —witnesses to the vows of devotees who hope, sooner or later, to erect small wooden shrines and so win favor from the unknown rulers of human destinies.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

For it is in St. Andrews that the traditional distinctions between the College and the University are maintained, that there is the solemn stillness which befits an ancient seat of learning, that every step brings one in view of some monument of ages that are past and gone, and that we are reminded not only of the learning of our ancestors, of their piety and devotion to the College they built and endowed, but of the secular history of our country as well.
— from James Frederick Ferrier by Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane

This was in 1851, when the law had been passed giving half a section of land to every settler, and half another section for his wife, if he had one.
— from Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash

E, F, Distance from surface of lake to earth's surface.
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

[Pg 211] permitting anything of the struggle of life to escape, so vast in its variety.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce