(b) Crops and livestock probably will be destroyed only in areas where there are large food surpluses or where the enemy (regime) is known to be requisitioning food.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Under these circumstances Angelica announced to those blockaded with her in the citadel her intention to go in quest of assistance, and, having plighted her promise of a speedy return, she set out, with the enchanted ring upon her finger.
— from Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch

However, as a special exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies the executable.
— from Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Ossama Othman

That very impression helped him as the effect of metre, or of the antithetical prose of the seventeenth century, which is itself a true metre, helps a writer, for he could pass without incongruity from some unforeseen swift stroke of wit to elaborate reverie.
— from Four Years by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

The first amazing sight on which their eyes rested was their own large canoe drifting down stream.
— from The Land of Mystery by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Under these circumstances, Angelica announced to those blockaded with her in the citadel, her intention to go in quest of assistance; and, having plighted her promise to come back within a certain period, set out, with the enchanted ring upon her finger.
— from The Orlando Innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo

If we are to regard horns as secondary sexual appendages which have been subsequently handed on to the female by heredity, we should expect to meet with examples of animals now horned in both sexes, of which the earlier representatives had the horns confined to one sex.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

At length we came to the end of this extraordinary mountain-forest, and after resting the tired horses for a little while, in a grove of pines and yellow acacias, entered the most lovely little wood, a succession of flowers and shrubs, and bright green grass, with vistas of fertile cornfields bordered by fruit trees-a peaceful scene, on which the eye rests with pleasure, after passing through these wild, volcanic regions.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

Very soon even this changed, until it became like a dead-white wall, upon the surface of which the eye rested, without the power of penetration as before.
— from Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story by Paschal Beverly Randolph